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Transgenic Plants: A Tool to Increase Crop Productivity Under Stress Environment

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Being static, the plants are exposed to different kinds of external factors. Many external factors negatively influence the plant metabolism and physiology which cause stress. Stress is such a condition mainly created by external factors in which metabolism of cell is adversely regulated, so that normal functioning of the cell is disrupted. These external factors contributing to stress may be biotic or abiotic and their interaction with plant leads to compromised productivity. The cell machinery that attempts to combat such situation involves genes like reactive oxygen species detoxifying genes, protein producing genes, osmoprotectant enhancer genes, heat shock protein synthesis genes, transcription factors, and so on. These have been isolated from different plants, native to the localities having harsh environmental conditions (like abiotic stresses) and depict adequate potential to impart tolerance to such adverse conditions. Many such genes are effectively transferred to diverse agricultural plant cells, where their fruitful expression enabled the crops to endure/ mitigate/ tolerate abiotic stresses like drought, salinity, etc., including herbicides as well as heavy metals. This chapter provides an overview of transgenic strategies/approaches in the plants for imparting resistance/tolerance to environmental stress conditions and thereby enhancing crop productivity under such environmental limitation.

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  1. Department of Botany, Government Chandulal Chandrakar Arts and Science PG college, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India

    Praveen Jain

  2. Directorate of Research, Central Agricultural University, Imphal, Manipur, India

    Prakash K. Sarangi

  3. Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India

    Saurabh Singh Rathore, Brijesh Pandey, Anand Prakash & Akhilesh Kumar Singh

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Sambalpur, Odisha, India

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Jain, P. et al. (2022). Transgenic Plants: A Tool to Increase Crop Productivity Under Stress Environment. In: Ansari, S.A., Ansari, M.I., Husen, A. (eds) Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6361-1_4

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