Regulation of Water Balance in Plants

  • Publication Year: 2018
  • ISBN: 9781773610474
  • Price: $200
  • Publisher: Delve Publishing
  • Binding Type: Hardcover

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Packed with the up-to-date information, the present book provides a detailed overview of the strategies enabling plants to maintain their water homeostasis despite changing environmental conditions. Introduces the different subfamilies of plant aquaporins, explains the main mechanisms controlling their activity and describes their roles in regulating plant water homeostasis. We focus on how aquaporins respond to these environmental factors in order to maintain water balance in plants.

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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.