Exploring Plant Stress Tolerance: A Metabolomics Approach

Plants, being sessile organisms, are subjected to diverse biotic and abiotic stresses, and today climate change has resulted in a significant increase in incidences of abiotic stresses, which have strong impact on agriculture and food security.

This new volume helps to provide a comprehensive understanding of the factors affecting plant responses to these stresses, taking a metabolomics approach in plants, which involves a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the complete set of metabolites present within plant tissues.

The volume covers various approaches to understand the mechanisms of stresses and identification of traits, which are crucial to improve stress adaptation and tolerance in plants. The book discusses diverse aspects of abiotic stresses, particularly as metabolomics has emerged as an important research perspective. The chapters explore the application of metabolomics in comprehending plant responses to metalloid stress, heavy metal stress, plant-insect interaction, plant-pathogen interaction, high- and low-temperature stress, and regulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production.

Also addressed are metabolomics-assisted breeding for the development of stress-tolerant crops, plant metabolome databases, and the use of mass spectrometry in studying plant tolerance to stress.

With chapters written by experts in the field, Exploring Plant Stress Tolerance: A Metabolomics Approach will be an informative resource for plant physiologists, biochemists, and molecular biologists interested in probing this vital area of study as well as for faculty and students in plant sciences.

Shuvasish Choudhury, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Plant Stress Biology in the Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics at Assam University, Silchar, India. His research areas include plant stress biology and plant metabolomics. He has published more than 80 research papers and articles in international journals of repute indexed by Scopus and Web of Science as well as several book chapters and edited books by reputed international publishing houses. He is also an acting Associate Editor for Plant Abiotic Stress section of Frontiers in Plant Science, Switzerland. He has received Young Botanist Award in 2010 from the Indian Botanical Society, India. He was awarded with Fast Track Young Scientist by the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and Overseas Associateship. He has successfully completed research projects funded by Indian governmental agencies. His work has been cited more than 3,200 times, per Google Scholar, and over 1900 times, per Scopus. His current research includes biochemistry and metabolomics of abiotic stress in plants, salinity stress, nutrient management strategies for abiotic stress resilience in crops, conversion of waste bioresources to biochar, and climate change impact on agriculture.

Debojyoti Moulick, PhD, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Assam University, Silchar, India. In 2018, he earned a prestigious Research Associateship (DBT-RA) award from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc-Bangalore) and Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India. Dr. Moulick has gathered extensive experience in biomonitoring, seed priming technology and phytotoxicity, grain quality analysis, etc., in soil-water-crop agroecosystems. In 2018, His research work was recognized by the Department of Science and Technology (Govt. of India) in Vigyan Prasar (India Science Wire) and several media houses as a breakthrough in proposing an alternative, cheap, and farmer-friendly mitigation option for minimizing arsenic-induced phytotoxicity and transmission through rice plant and grain respectively. To date, he has reviewed over 250 papers for more than 50 international publication houses and edited a book (CRC Press). He is an editorial board member of BMC Plant Biology (Springer Nature) and Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (Wiley). He has published over 37 peer-reviewed articles in leading international journals and more than 26 book chapters published by globally reputed publication houses. He was awarded his MPhil and PhD in Environmental Science by University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

Mirza Hasanuzzaman, PhD, is a Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU), Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was formerly an Adjunct Senior Researcher at the University of Tasmania with an Australian Government Endeavour Research Fellowship. Prof. Hasanuzzaman has over 300 Scopus-indexed publications, with 250 of them indexed in the Web of Science. He is an editor and a reviewer for more than 80 peer-reviewed international journals and the recipient of Publons Peer Review Awards (2017, 2018, and 2019). He is acting as Associate Editor for various journals, including Plant Signaling & Behavior (Taylor and Francis), Frontiers in Plant Science (Switzerland), Phyton (Tech Science Press, USA), and Stresses (MDPI, Switzerland). He is also an Academic Editor of PeerJ (USA). He is a member of the editorial board of many journals as well. He has received many prestigious awards and is a fellow and member of various prestigious societies as well.