Plant signaling: Understanding the molecular crosstalk

​Plant signalling has emerged as an integrated field which has become indispensable in recent times to study any biological process. Over the last decade, an enormous amount of information has been generated in this field and the advances in information technology gave birth to bioinformatics which has helped greatly in managing the galaxy of information. It is now possible to view the different information’s in a systems biology approach which has unravelled the association/ new processes and thus helped us enormously in understanding of the biological processes. The present book is an attempt at understanding the plant signalling processes with different perspectives. Even though the plants are sessile but there exists a tremendous interconnected network of perception at morphological, physiological and molecular levels. The impact of the surrounding environment in terms of abiotic and biotic stresses is significant in terms of its survival, adaptation and productivity for the human welfare. The plants possess a wide array of processes at the organ, tissue and cellular levels which are governed by a plethora of molecules. The molecules govern individual processes and these exists a cross talk between them to form a complex network of processes. The book tries to envision how different processes are operating at different points in the life cycle of the plant.

Dr. Hakeem is currently working as Post doc Research Scientist at Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Dr. Khalid has so far edited more than seven books with Springer and other European publishers. He has also to his credit more than 30 publications in various national and international journals. Dr. Rehman is currently working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Bioresources, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. Recipient of several fellowships at both national and international level, particularly, the award of the Marie Curie IIF project (MC-IIF-FP7-219339). He has worked on agronomical, physiological and biochemical aspects of mineral nutrition in mustard, which is relevant to economical aspect in terms of crop productivity. He managed the in vitro regeneration and propagation of several important medicinal plants followed by the genetic transformation of medicinal plants with stress related genes. He has to his credit one published book and 22 publications in various national and international journals. Dr. Tahir is currently working as the Professor, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. He has done extensive work pertaining to physiological studies on buckwheats in Kashmir. He has also been actively perusing the research on flower senescence and post harvest physiology of the ornamentals. He has published more than 60 papers in various national and international journals.