Molecular Mechanisms in Plant Adaptation

Plants are forced to adapt for a variety of reasons. The main driving factors to adaptation are protection, reproductive viability, and environmental and climatic changes. Computational tools and molecular advances have provided researchers with significant new insights into the molecular basis of plant adaptation. Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Adaptation provides a comprehensive overview of different mechanisms underlying adaptation to these challenges to plant survival.

Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Adaptation opens with chapters that explore the latest technological advances used in plant adaptation research, providing readers with an overview of high-throughput technologies and modeling tools. Subsequent chapters describe plant responses to biotic and abiotic stressors and adaptive reproductive strategies. Emerging areas such epigenetics, transgenerational memory, and regulation of adaptation through small RNA are given special precedence. The final chapter looks at translating this findings and applying them to field studies and breeding programs.