Plant Response to Envrionmental Stress 1st Edition

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The book entitled Plant Response to Environmental Stress is an outcome of selected presentations made during the International Conference on plants and Environmental Pollution (ICPEP-2). It contains contributions from leading subject experts from 21 countries. The volume has been structured under seven sections viz., climate chnage; environmental pollution and bildiversity; environmental biotechnology; bioremediation and bioindication; mass awareness; legislation and economic impact; and improvement, protection and utilization of plants in relation to environment. This break up broadly reflects the scientific sessions, which were organized during ICPEP-2. The book addresses the diversities of environmental contamination, evaluates the problems and disturbances, which they cause to the biotic as well as abiotic components of the ecosystems, and indicates strategies that are being developed to salvage the situation. The book should interest not only the students and researchers of environmental botany, ecology and forestry, but also those who love plants and have any interst in global environamental health.

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s Dr. R D Tripathi is a Senior Scientist and Group Leader working in Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation Group at the National Botancial Research Institute, Lucknow. For more than a decade, he has been working on various aspects of plant metal interaction focusing on phytoremediation of toxic metal ions from the environment. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal Physiology and Molecualr Biology of Plants (Published from New Delhi). He also worked as a member WHO Expet Group on evaluation of carcinogenic risks to human beings on inorganic and organic lead compounds during February 2004 in Lyon, France. He has coauthored a book on Betelvine (Piper betle L,) and published 90 papers mostly in journals with science citation index. Currently he is engaged in various aspects of metal phytoremediation and metal detoxification processes and also on the development of phytotechnology for the utilization of coal combustion resdiue (fly-ash). Dr. Kamla Kulshrehtha is an environmental scientist by training, research and professional experience. During her research career, she has contributed more than 50 research papers in journals of international repute. She has carried out many field surveys, field and laboratory experiments ???Ecoeducation??? at NBRI and is presently heading the same. She has made significant contributions in setting up the ???Tactile gardens??? as the garden for visually impaired and physically challenged; model theme garden, lesser known edible fruit garden etc. In addition, she has established a children laboratory and conducted various outreach programmes. The ???vacation training program for school children??? conducted by her has proven to be a unique and highly publication Environews and was a Guest Editor of a special issue of Environmental Pollution published by Elsevier. Dr. K J Ahmad has founded and headed research groups in plant anatomy, electron microscopy and environmental sciences. He has conducted and guided research programmes on effects of air pollutants on morphology and ultra-structure of palnts and published over 80 research papers, edited 2 books and guided 5 Ph.D. students. He has been associated with a large number of national and international scientific bodies/academics as an Expert/Member. He has also worked at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England as a Visiting Scientist during 1975. Dr. Madhoolika Agrawal, has made significant contributions in the field of air pollution, with particular emphasis on the cause-effect relationship. She has conducted extensive field studies to ascertain the role of air pollutants as a stress factor for tropical deciduous vegetation in India. She has extended her research on global climate change effects with particular reference to enhanced UV-B radiation and elecated CO2. She is coeditor of a book entitled ???Environmental Pollution and Plant Responses??? published by Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, USA. Dr. C K Varshney is Professor of Ecology and former Dean, School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has also worked as Senior Fellow at East-West Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii, as Visiting Professor at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, and as National Academic Director of LEAD India Programme. Professor Varshney is a recipient of Swami Pranavanada award for Environmental Science and Ecology. He has authored many books and published his research work in internationally reputed journals. DR. Sagar Krupa is a Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota. Dr. Krupa is a Fellow of the International Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA). His research is directed to integrating atmospheric processes (both wet and dry deposition, including source apportionment) to vegetation responses. He was a peer reviewer of th USEPA???s most recent DraftCriteria Document on ???Particulate Matter??? and on ???Ozone and Other Photochemical Oxidants???. He is an Associate Editor of the journal ???Environmental Pollution??? and Chief Editor of the book series ???Developments in Environmental Science??? (both published by Elsevier Science of the Netherlands). He has published some 140 peer reviewed journal articles and 11 books. Dr. P Pushpangadan, presently the Director, National Botanical Research Institute is a multidisciplinary scientist having over 34 years of research experience in the areas like Cytogenetics and Plant Breeding, Molecular Taxonomy, Biotechnology, Ethnobiology, Conservation Biology, Ethnopharmacology and IPR issues related to biodiversity including benefit sharing. He has published over 267 original research papers and articles in National and International journals, 7 books and over 52 patents awarded/filed in India and abroad. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAASC) and also Fellow of three other Scientific Bodies in India. He is the President of National Society of Ethnopharmacology and the International Society of Environmental Botanists.

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Climate Change, Enhanced UV-B radiation affect ethylene production and the expression of ACC sysnthase gene in tomato leaves Effect of ozone on growth and yield of potato (Solanum tuberosum) The effect of UV-B radiation on membrane lipid peroxidation mechanisms in broad bean leaves Envrionmental Pollution and Biodiversity, Floral diversity of punjab state: A review Envrionmental pollutin and biodiversity: A case of aquatic macrophyte vegetation of lake phewa tal, Nepal CITES and conservation of plant diversity in India Allelopathic effect of dried leaves of lantana camara L. Environmental Biotechnology, Bioremediation and Bioindication, Detecting air pollution with plants Aquatic plants as water quality indicators in two ponds of Kolkata Preliminary evaluation of the effects of sludge in the remediation of soils polluted by industrial atmospheric emissions Aquatic vegetation ans indicator of the sustainability of fresh water systems: interactions with the land surface A review of low cost adsorbents for the removal of heavy metals and dyes Water hyacinth (echhornia crassipes) problems and remedy Improvement of rhizobium, Effects of air pollution on vegetatin in central mexico: A brief overview Cytoplasmic streaming velocity of Nitella as a new aquatic pollution bioassay technique Parameters for detecting effects of ionizing radiations on plants Impact of chlorine gas pollutant on cultivated crops Role of leaf surface structures in plant resistance to auto-exhaust pollution Physiological control of potassium flux pathways in chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells: interaction with toxic metals A physiochmial approach towards understanding of salicylic acid-mediated modification in salinity response of brassica compestris Quantitative characteristics of the leaf structure in plants under industrial pollution Effect of tannery effluent on Oscillatoria Effect of fly-ash incorporation on growth and yield of Triticum aestivum L. var. Malaviya 234 Environmental Education, Mass Awareness, Legislation and Economic Impact, Ethnobotanical heritage and conservation of cultural diversity of Bhotia tribes in Uttaranchal Improvement, protection and utilization of plants in relation to environment, Anotomical abnoramlities in pine trees wood (pinus sylvestris l,) after chernobyl accident Mangrove diversity along the south-east coast of India since Holocene: A palynostratigraphical record