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Crop Plants, Abiotic Stress, Reactive Oxygen Species Production, Signaling, and Their Consequences

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Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment

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The utmost normally abiotic stress–triggered expression in plants involves the transcription factors activating stress responsive genes, thereby causing the formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). ROS signaling pathways along with plant hormones act as key mediators culminating into activation of downstream metabolic routes and alterations at the physiological levels according to the altered environment. A critical amount of ROS is needed by plant systems for normal functioning of important physiological mechanisms. Furthermore, if exist at a higher than critical level, ROS may be lethal and devastating for the entire physiological response. Consequently, plant systems retain a threshold level of ROS by inherent antioxidant defense mechanisms comprising of enzymatic and nonenzymatic components. Usually, surplus ROS are neutralized by these antioxidants, but under stress, ROS formation is elevated, and antioxidant activity is lowered. Overall, the present chapter provides an overview on the ROS signaling together with their production, impact, and mitigation through antioxidant mechanisms in crops under adverse environments.

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  1. Department of Botany, Government Chandulal Chandrakar Arts and Science PG College, Patan, Chhattisgarh, India

    Praveen Jain

  2. Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, East Champaran, Bihar, India

    Brijesh Pandey, Saurabh Singh Rathore, Anand Prakash & Akhilesh Kumar Singh

  3. Ranjan Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Pratibha Singh

  4. Department of Life Science, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Ashish Sachan

  5. Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Sujeet Pratap Singh

  6. Department of Botany, Dayalbagh Eductional Institute, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Vijay Kumar Dalal

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Jain, P. et al. (2022). Crop Plants, Abiotic Stress, Reactive Oxygen Species Production, Signaling, and Their Consequences. In: Ansari, S.A., Ansari, M.I., Husen, A. (eds) Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6361-1_7

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