Regulation of Cation Homeostasis in Plants

  • Publication Year: 2018
  • ISBN: 9781773610436
  • Price: $210
  • Publisher: Delve Publishing
  • Binding Type: Hardcover

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Presentation of insights into the role and underlying mechanisms of Cation homeostasis in plants under environmental stresses has been the major focus of current plant research. This book brings together contributions around the world to discuss and the current knowledge of the role stress genes play in plant stress tolerance, with special emphasis on those regulating the uptake and distribution of K+ and its competitive inhibitor Na+. The present book intends to help college students, teachers, researchers and other readers interested in plant physiology better understand the mechanisms employed by plants to compensate transient imbalances in the levels of their main cations.

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Carlos Tello (Valencia, Spain, 1981) studied Agricultural Engineering with specialization in Biotechnology at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, where he graduated with a BSc thesis on the characterization of an Arabidopsis mutant with increased tolerance to seed ageing and salt stress. He moved afterwards to Sevilla to complete his MSc and PhD at the Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología, where he studied the mechanisms employed by plants in their adaptation to abiotic stress and more specifically the role of the Arabidopsis Na+/H+ antiporter SOS1 in the regulation of Na+ and K+ homeostasis. Since 2014, he is based in Zürich and develops several freelance science-related jobs. He has recently retrained himself in the field of cell culture in bioreactors by attending an advanced training course at the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.