Osmolytes and Plants Acclimation to Changing Environment: Emerging Omics Technologies

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1 Osmolytes and Plants Acclimation to Changing Environment: Emerging Omics Technologies

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3 Noushina Iqbal Rahat Nazar Nafees A. Khan Editors Osmolytes and Plants Acclimation to Changing Environment: Emerging Omics Technologies

4 Editors Noushina Iqbal Department of Botany Jamia Hamdard University New Delhi, Delhi, India Rahat Nazar Department of Botany Jamia Hamdard University New Delhi, Delhi, India Nafees A. Khan Department of Botany Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh, ISBN DOI / ISBN (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: Springer New Delhi Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Springer India 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd. is part of Springer Science+Business Media (

5 Acknowledgements First and foremost we would like to thank the Almighty without whose blessings we are nothing. We would like to express our gratitude to the DS Kothari postdoctoral fellowship for providing the research grant. We also acknowledge the academic staff of Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, and AMU, Aligarh, for their support. We are also thankful to our parents for their love and trust and for being a continuous source of inspiration. We are thankful to our spouse for their continuous support and encouragement in spite of all the time it took us away from them. Thanks to our kids for bearing our absence. And lastly, we take an opportunity to thanks Springer for providing us an opportunity to spread our work. v

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7 Contents 1 Osmolyte Accumulation and Implications in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance... 1 P. Suprasanna, G.C. Nikalje, and A.N. Rai 2 Contribution of Osmolyte Accumulation to Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Wild Plants Adapted to Different Stressful Environments Oscar Vicente, Mohamad Al Hassan, and Monica Boscaiu 3 Salinity Tolerance: Growth, Mineral Nutrients, and Roles of Organic Osmolytes, Case of Lygeum spartum L., A Review Bouzid Nedjimi 4 Roles of Osmolytes in Plant Adaptation to Drought and Salinity Kamrun Nahar, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, and Masayuki Fujita 5 Glycine Betaine: Role in Shifting Plants Toward Adaptation Under Extreme Environments Asim Masood, Tasir S. Per, Mohd Asgher, Mehar Fatma, M. Iqbal R. Khan, Faisal Rasheed, Sofi J. Hussain, and Nafees A. Khan 6 Metabolic Engineering of Compatible Solute Trehalose for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants Saroj Kumar Sah, Gurwinder Kaur, Shabir H. Wani 7 Polyamines: Osmoprotectants in Plant Abiotic Stress Adaptation Atreyee Sengupta, Mayukh Chakraborty, Jayita Saha, Bhaskar Gupta, and Kamala Gupta 8 Evaluating the Importance of Proline in Cadmium Tolerance and Its Interaction with Phytohormones Noushina Iqbal, Rahat Nazar, and Shahid Umar vii

8 viii Contents 9 Proline Accumulation in Plants: Roles in Stress Tolerance and Plant Development Mudasir Irfan Dar, Mohd Irfan Naikoo, Farha Rehman, Fauzia Naushin, and Fareed Ahmad Khan Index

9 Contributors Mohd Asgher Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Monica Boscaiu Mediterranean Agroforestal Institute (IAM, UPV), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain Mayukh Chakraborty Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Mudasir Irfan Dar Environmental Botany Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Mehar Fatma Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Masayuki Fujita Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan Kamala Gupta Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Department of Botany, Government General Degree College, Singur, Hooghly District, West Bengal, India Bhaskar Gupta Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Department of Zoology, Government General Degree College, Singur, Hooghly District, West Bengal, India Mirza Hasanuzzaman Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Mohamad Al Hassan Institute for Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP, UPV-CSIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain Sofi J. Hussain Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Noushina Iqbal Department of Botany, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, Delhi, India ix

10 x Contributors Gurwinder Kaur School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India M. Iqbal R. Khan Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Nafees A. Khan Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Fareed Ahmad Khan Environmental Botany Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Asim Masood Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Kamrun Nahar Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Mohd Irfan Naikoo Environmental Botany Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Fauzia Naushin Department of Botany, Women s College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Rahat Nazar Department of Botany, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, Delhi, India Bouzid Nedjimi Laboratory of Exploration and Valorization of Steppe Ecosystem, Faculty of Science of Nature and Life, University of Djelfa, Djelfa, Algeria G.C. Nikalje Plant Stress Physiology and Biotechnology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India P. Suprasanna Plant Stress Physiology and Biotechnology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India Tasir S. Per Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, A.N. Rai Plant Stress Physiology and Biotechnology Section, Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India Faisal Rasheed Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Farha Rehman Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, Rampur,

11 Contributors xi Saroj Kumar Sah Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA Jayita Saha Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Atreyee Sengupta Department of Biological Sciences, Presidency University, Kolkata, India Shahid Umar Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India Oscar Vicente Institute of Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMCP, UPV-CSIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain Shabir H. Wani Division of Genetics and Plant Breeding, SKUAST-K, Shalimar, Srinagar, JK, India