Table of Contents

1. The Physiology and Molecular Biology of Stress Induced Senescence
2. Abiotic Stress and Plant Senescence
3. Plant leaf senescence: Integrating multiple environmental and internal cues
4. Signal Transduction in Leaf Senescence: An Overview
5. Regulation of Leaf Senescence by Macromolecular Degradation and Hormones
6. The Role of Growth Regulators in Senescence
7. Jasmonic acid (JA) Mediated Signaling in Leaf Senescence
8. Polyamine as Signaling Molecules and Leaf Senescence
9. Oxidative Stress and Leaf Senescence: Important Insights
10. Proteolytic Processing During Leaf Senescence
11. Role of Histones During Leaf Senescence
12. Receptor-like kinases control of the development, stress response and senescence in plants
13. Flower senescence: present status and future aspects
14. Nutrient Remobilization During Senescence
15. Autophagy and Senescence
16. Plant Senescence and Organ Abscission
17. Autophagy and Senescence
18. Plant Senescence and Agriculture

About the Author

Dr. Maryam Sarwat is an Indian Citizen, working as an Associate Professor in the Amity Institute of Pharmacy, Amity University, Noida. She has obtained her Ph. D. in 2007 and completed postdoctoral research at ICGEB, New Delhi. She has received several research grants from various R & D agencies such as DST, DBT, CCRUM and SERB in India. She has presented her findings in scientific conferences in various countries like Germany, Czech Republic and France etc. Dr. Sarwat has mentored six PhD and fifteen Masters’ students. She has more than 55 international publications in reputed journals and three patents to her credit. She is the recipient of the prestigious “Scientist of the Year Award” in 2015. Dr. Sarwat has published two volumes of “Stress Signaling in Plants, Genomics and Proteomics Perspective” with Springer Nature in 2013 and 2017. She has also authored two books with Elsevier entitled ‘Senescence Signaling and Control in Plants’ in 2018 and ‘Saffron: The Age-Old Panacea in a New Light’ in the early 2020. She has also published the title ‘Environment and Human Health’ through King Abdul Aziz University Press in 2020. Her two volumes on ‘Ethnic Knowledge on Biodiversity, Nutrition and Health Security’ are due for publication by Taylor and Francis in 2021. She has served various international journals as reviewer An elected fellow of numerous national and international academies, Dr. Narendra Tuteja is currently Professor and head at Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, NOIDA, India, and visiting Scientist at International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India. He has made significant contributions to crop improvement under adverse conditions, reporting the first helicase from plant and human cells and demonstrating new roles of Ku autoantigen, nucleolin and eIF4A as DNA helicases. Furthermore, he discovered novel functions of helicases, G-proteins, CBL-CIPK and LecRLK in plant stress tolerance, and PLC and MAP-kinase as effectors for Gα and Gβ G-proteins. Narendra Tuteja also reported several high salinity stress tolerant genes from plants and fungi and developed salt/drought tolerant plants.