398 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    392 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    In the present era, rapid industrialization and urbanization has resulted in unwanted physiological, chemical, and biological changes in the environment that have harmful effects on crop quality and productivity. This situation is further worsened by the growing demand for food due to an ever increasing population. This forces plant scientists and agronomists to look forward for alternative strategies to enhance crop production and produce safer, healthier foods. Biotic and abiotic stresses are major constraints to crop productivity and have become an important challenge to agricultural scientists and agronomists due to the fact that both stress factors considerably reduce agriculture production worldwide per year.





    Silicon has various effects on plant growth and development, as well as crop yields. It increases photosynthetic activity, creates better disease resistance, reduces heavy metal toxicity, improves nutrient imbalance, and enhances drought tolerance. Silicon in Plants: Advances and Future Prospects presents the beneficial effects of silicon in improving productivity in plants and enhancing the capacity of plants to resist stresses from environmental factors. It compiles recent advances made worldwide in different leading laboratories concerning the role of silicon in plant biology in order to make these outcomes easily accessible to academicians, researchers, industrialists, and students. Nineteen chapters summarize information regarding the role of silicon in plants, their growth and development, physiological and molecular responses, and responses against the various abiotic stresses.

    Mechanisms of Silicon-Mediated Alleviation of Abiotic Stress in Plants: Recent Advances and Future Perspective
    Denis Líška, Milan Soukup, Zuzana Lukacová, Boris Bokor, and Marek Vaculík

    Role of Silicon under Nutrient Deficiency: Recent Advances and Future Perspective
    Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Fatima Akmal, Noorani Mir, Muhammad Rizwan, Asif Naeem, Muhammad Sabir, and Zahoor Ahmad

    Regulatory Mechanisms by Silicon to Overcome the Salinity-Induced Imbalance of Essential Nutrient Elements
    Prabhakaran Soundararajan, Abinaya Manivannan, and Byoung Ryong Jeong

    Silicon: A Potential Element to Impart Resistance to Photosynthetic Machinery under Different Abiotic Stresses
    Gausiya Bashri, Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Sheo Mohan Prasad, and Devendra Kumar Chauhan

    Silicon and Heavy Metal Tolerance of Plants
    Clístenes Williams Araújo do Nascimento and Karina Patrícia Vieira da Cunha

    Silicon and Nanotechnology: Role in Agriculture and Future Perspectives
    Anita Singh, Shikha Singh, and Sheo Mohan Prasad

    Silicon and Floricultural Crops: Evaluation of Silicon Uptake and Deposition in Floricultural Plants
    Yoo Gyeong Park, Chung Ho Ko, Sowbiya Muneer, and Byoung Ryong Jeong

    Silicon and Alleviation of Salt Stress in Crop Genotypes Differing in Salt Tolerance
    Muhammad Shahzad, Abdul Qadir, and Sajid Masood

    Silicon-Mediated Modulations of Genes and Secondary Metabolites in Plants: A Comprehensive Overview
    Abinaya Manivannan, Prabhakaran Soundararajan, and Byoung Ryong Jeong

    Role of Silicon under Heavy Metal and Toxic Element Stress: An Emphasis on Root Biology
    Marek Vaculík and Miroslava Vaculíková

    Silicon Uptake and Translocation in Plants: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
    Anuradha Patel, Jitendra Kumar, Madhulika Singh, Vijay Pratap Singh, and Sheo Mohan Prasad

    Silicon and Chromium Toxicity in Plants: An Overview
    Rehan Ahmad, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Ibrahim, Muhammad Rizwan, Fakhir Hannan, Muhammad Adrees, and Muhammad Daud Khan

    Role of Silicon in Plants: Present Scenario and Future Prospects
    Shweta, Swati Singh, Bishwajit Kumar Kushwaha, Parvaiz Ahmad, Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Nawal Kishore Dubey, and Devendra Kumar Chauhan

    Silicon and Cadmium Toxicity in Plants: An Overview
    Fakhir Hannan, Shafaqat Ali, Rehan Ahmad, Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Iqbal, Hina Rizvi, and Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman

    Roles of Silicon in Improving Drought Tolerance in Plants
    Hemmat Khattab

    Silicon Nutrition and Crop Improvement: Recent Advances and Future Perspective
    Arkadiusz Artyszak and Katarzyna Kucinska

    Silicon and Antioxidant Defense System against Abiotic Stresses in Plants: An Overview
    Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Hinnan Khalid, Fatima Akmal, Maqsooda Waqar, Muhammad Rizwan, Farooq Qayyum, and Muhammad Nadeem

    Silicon Nutrition and Rice Crop Improvement in Iran: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
    Allahyar Fallah

    Efficacy of Silicon against Aluminum Toxicity in Plants: An Overview
    Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Gausiya Bashri, Shweta, Swati Singh, Parvaiz Ahmad, Vijay Pratap Singh, Sheo Mohan Prasad, Nawal Kishore Dubey, and Devendra Kumar Chauhan

    Biography

    Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Parvaiz Ahmad, Devendra Kumar Chauhan, Sheo Mohan Prasad