Plant Stress: Challenges and Management in the New Decade

Part I Understanding and management of abiotic and biotic stress in plants.- 1. Plant responses under abiotic stress and mitigation options towards agricultural sustainability.- 2. Plant viruses: Factors involved in emergence and recent advances in their management.- 3. Crop plants under metal stress and its remediation.- 4. Exploiting host resistance in management of vascular wilt in major pulses of India.- 5. Atmospheric nitric oxide (NO) regulates ozone (O3)-induced stress in plants: Ally or Foe?.- 6. Brassinosteroids: A wonder growth regulator to alleviate abiotic stresses in plants.- 7. Structural and functional role of plant dehydrins in enhancing stress tolerance.- 8. Adaptation of microalgae to temperature and light stress.- 9. Halopriming: Sustainable approach for abiotic stress management in crops.- 10. Naturally growing native plants of wastelands: Their stress management strategies and prospects in changing climate.- 11. Vulnerability and resilience of sorghum to changing climatic conditions: Lessons from the past and hope for the future.- 12. Recent updates in plant disease management.- 13. Heat stress in wheat: Impact and management strategies towards climate resilience.- Part II Potential of microbes in plant stress management.- 14. Plant-microbe interactions in combating abiotic stresses.- 15. Cadmium stress management in plants: Prospects of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria.- 16. Harnessing the power of microbes to overcome heavy metal stress in crop plant.- 17. Halotolerant plant growth promoting rhizobacteria: A futuristic direction to salt stress tolerance.- 18. Outside the cell surface: Encoding the role of Exopolysaccharide producing rhizobacteria to boost the drought tolerance in plants.- 19. Potential of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria for enhancement of plant growth and its role in improving soil health under abiotic stress.- 20. Soil

Dr. Swarnendu Roy currently works as Assistant Professor in the University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India. He has more than 10 years of teaching experience. He has been Recipient of University Gold Medal for securing 1st position at B.Sc. and University Silver medal for securing 2nd position at M.Sc. level. He received the Post-Graduate Merit Scholarship for University Rank Holder-awarded by Ministry of HRD and UGC (2006- 2008), Government of India. He also received CSIR Junior Research Fellowship-awarded by CSIR-UGC (2008) for Ph.D. degree. He has published more than 20 research articles in reputed journals and book chapters in edited volumes till date. He has submitted cDNA sequences of NHX and SOS1 genes of Cynodon dactylon for the first time to NCBI. Presently, he is actively engaged in research topics encompassing mechanism of salinity and drought stress in cereals and legumes, stress management by functionalized nanoparticles and bioinformatics study ofstress-related transcription factors. He is presently supervising 4 research scholars including 3 UGC-JRFs. He has also guided 14 M.Sc. students in their dissertation work. He has also received International Travel Support (ITS) from DST, Government of India to present his research paper at the International Conference on Integrative Plant Physiology 2019 at Sitges, Spain (27-29 October, 2019). He is Life Member of prestigious societies like 'The Indian Science Congress Association' and Association of Food Scientists and Technologist (India). 


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Dr. Piyush Mathur currently works as Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India. His research deals with climate change and biotic stress, microbial diversity and plant disease management. He has done his Ph.D. in Botany with specialization inMycology