Plant Hormones and Climate Change

This book provides new insights into the mechanisms of plant hormone-mediated growth regulation and stress tolerance covering the most recent biochemical, physiological, genetic, and molecular studies. It also highlights the potential implications of plant hormones in ensuring food security in the face of climate change. Each chapter covers particular abiotic stress (heat stress, cold, drought, flooding, soil acidity, ozone, heavy metals, elevated CO₂, acid rain, and photooxidative stress) and the versatile role of plant hormones in stress perception, signal transduction, and subsequent stress tolerance in the context of climate change. Some chapters also discuss hormonal crosstalk or interaction in plant stress adaptation and highlight convergence points of crosstalk between plant hormones and environmental signals such as light, which are considered recent breakthrough studies in plant hormone research.   

As exogenous application or genetic manipulation of hormones can alter crop yield under favorable and/or unfavorable environmental conditions, the utilization of plant hormones in modern agriculture is of great significance in the context of global climate change. Thus, it is important to further explore how hormone manipulation can secure a good harvest under challenging environmental conditions. This volume is dedicated to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2 and 13. The volume is suitable for plant science-related courses, such as plant stress physiology, plant growth regulators, and physiology and biochemistry of phytohormones for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students at colleges and universities. The book can be a useful reference for academicians and scientists involved in research related to plant hormones and stress tolerance.

Dr. Golam Jalal Ahammed is an Associate Professor at the Department of Horticulture, College of Horticulture and Plant Protection, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China. He obtained his B.Sc. in Agriculture in 2004 and M.S. in Horticulture in 2006 from Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. Dr. Ahammed received a Ph.D. in Olericulture with a major focus on Plant Stress Physiology and Hormonal Regulation in 2012 from Zhejiang University, China. Afterward, he completed two consecutive postdoctoral programs at the Institute of Pesticide and Environmental Toxicology and the Institute of Crop Science of Zhejiang University. His major research interests include plant stress physiology, phytohormones, climate change effects on plants, and environmental pollution. Dr. Ahammed authored over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is a Senior Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports and an Associate Editor of AoB Plants, BMC Plant Biology, and Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. Dr. Ahammed was awarded several research grants by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.

Dr. Jingquan Yu is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a Professor of Horticulture at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the Director of the Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plants Growth, Development, and Quality Improvement, Agricultural Ministry of China. He completed his M.Sc. in Agrochemistry in 1991 from Shimane University, Japan, and Ph.D. in Bio-resource Chemistry in 1994 from Tottori University, Japan. Afterward, he worked as a postdoc scientist at Shimane University. In 1995, he returned to China and joined Zhejiang University. His fields of specialization include plant hormones, systemic signaling, plant growth regulation, allelopathy, and monocropping obstacle. Prof. Yu is one of the leading scientists in the area of vegetable research. He was awarded a number of honors such as Excellent Youth Instructor, Yangtze River Scholar, National Natural Science Award, Science and Technology Advancement Award, Science and Technology Advancement Award of Zhejiang Province, National Outstanding Youth Scholar, and so on. He has been serving as an editor for several domestic and international journals. He authored more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Prof Yu is one of the highly cited researchers in 2020 and 2021 (Clarivate-Web of Science).