Plant Flooding: Sensitivity and Tolerance Mechanisms (Plant in Challenging Environments, 6)

The issue of flooding has become a significant challenge on a global scale especially in rain-fed ecosystems, having soils with poor drainage. This significantly diminishes crop yield. Therefore, it is imperative to address the issue of flood stress, including the potential strategies for mitigating its adverse effects on crop yield, in order to ensure the continued provision of food for the growing global population.

This book aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on flooding stress on plants such as morphological, physiological, and molecular responses of plants to flood stress, omics studies to understand the molecular mechanism underlying flooding stress tolerance, and transgenic and microbial strategies to overcome flood stress. It also deals with the use of new technologies to understand flood stress and plant responses.

The chapters included in this book are the compilation of latest information and data on the flood stress, its effect on the physiology, growth, and development of crop plants as well as mechanisms adapted by plants to overcome this stress. 

This book will help Researchers, Professors, Agri-Entrepreneurs, and Technologists understand the detrimental effects of flood stress, to develop newer approaches to mitigate flood stress. The book will help fill in designing new dimensions in the Flood Stress research and development of methods and technologies to overcome the flood-induced losses in crop yield.

Dr. Riyazuddin is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Bioingeniería, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain. His research interests include the role of Jumanji C domain-containing histone demethylases in regulating gene expression and chromatin structure. In his capacity as a research assistant, he was engaged in the characterization of RLCK kinases in environmental stress responses at the Institute of Plant Biology, HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary. He was awarded his PhD in plant molecular stress physiology from the University of Szeged, Hungary, where he conducted research on the role of glutathione peroxidase in response to salt and drought stresses and the regulation of this process by phytohormones. He has published over 30 scientific articles, with a cumulative impact factor exceeding 100 and several book chapters on the topic of stress physiology. Additionally, he has been the recipient of numerous esteemed international fellowships from the Hungarian government and has been the recipient of several international awards, including the Young Research Scholar Award and the Best Young Poster Presentation Award. In addition to serving on the board of studies, he is actively engaged as a visiting faculty member at the Department of Botany of Bhavan's College, Mumbai, Maharashtra; Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur; and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Engineering, Nagpur University. Moreover, he has presented his work at over 30 national and international conferences.

Dr. Ravi Gupta is currently employed as an Assistant Professor at Kookmin University, Seoul. He obtained his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry from the University of Delhi, India and then spent more than five years working as a postdoctoral fellow and Research Professor at Pusan National University, Busan, Korea. Dr. Gupta is the author of more than 90 scientific publications and has also published several books. He is a recipient of many prestigious national and international awards, including the Ramalingaswami re-entry fellowship, Ramanujan fellowship, ITS fellowship from the Government of India, and Korea Research Fellowship from the Government of South Korea.

Prof. Pramod W. Ramteke is currently working as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, RTM Nagpur University and Hislop College, Nagpur. He has 36 years of teaching and research experience in the area of sustainable crop production. He has been elected as the Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Biotech Research Society of India, Royal Society of Biology, Academy of Microbiological Sciences (AMI), National Academy of Biological Sciences, Mycological Society of India and International Society of Environmental Botanists. He is the recipient of many awards, including BHU Centennial Award, Excellence in Science Award (SCON), J. C. Bose Gold Medal, Dr. J. C. Edward Medal, Prof. K. S. Bilgramy Memorial Award, Prof. K. V. Shastri Gold Medal and V. S. Chauhan Gold Medal. He has authored/edited 10 books and over 250 research articles.

Prof. Dr. Riyaz Sayyed is currently working as a Professor at the University of Nizwa, Oman. He has over 25 years of teaching and research experience in Microbiology and Biotechnology. He has served as the President of the India Chapter of the Asian PGPR Society for Sustainable Agriculture. He is the Associate Editor of Environmental Sustainability (Springer), Guest Editor of Sustainability (MDPI), Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers in Sustainable Food System, and Academic Editor of PeerJ. Elsevier and Stanford which consecutively listed Prof. Sayyed among the world's Top 2% of researchers. To his credit, he has received many prestigious awards, namely, Fellow-Indian Phytopathological Society (2021), Research Excellence Award – 2020 (Publication), Prof M. M. Sharma Award (2020), Springer-Society Award (2020), Best Teachers Award (2018), Award for Excellence in PGPR Research (2017, 2018, 2019). He has authored over 347 research papers in high IF international journals, with citations of 12605 (h-index, 53), 34 books with Springer, Elsevier, CRC Press, and Wile, and 73 book chapters. Prof. Sayyed has delivered many invited talks in several Southeast Asian and European Countries. He has trained several graduates, post-graduate, and research students and produced seven PhDs under his guidance.