Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress 4th Edition

Following its predecessors, the fourth edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress offers a unique and comprehensive collection of topics in the fields of plant and crop stress. This volume presents 10 comprehensive sections covering soil salinity and sodicity problems; tolerance mechanisms and stressful conditions; plant and crop responses to various stresses including pollution, heavy metals, and biotic stress; genetic factors and genomics under stress; plant breeding for stress tolerance; empirical investigations; improving tolerance; and beneficial aspects of stressors. The edition contains more than 80% new material, with the remaining 20% substantially updated and revised. It includes 40 new chapters and 10 extensively revised and expanded chapters, plus three new sections on plant breeding, stress exerted on weeds by plants, and beneficial effects of stress on plants and crops. Written by an international panel of experts, this handbook provides exhaustive coverage in agricultural and plant/crop stress science along with numerous case studies, making it a vital reference for researchers, academicians, and professionals in agronomy and plant sciences.