Stress Physiology of Tea in the Face of Climate Change

Dr. Golam Jalal Ahammed is from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Dr. Wen-Yan Han and Dr. Xin Li are from Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China.

• Chapter 1. Global climate change, stress and tea production: Present and future.- Chapter 2. Understanding response of tea plants to heat stress and the mechanisms of adaptation.- Chapter 3. How tea plants deal with low temperatures?.- Chapter 4. Response of tea plants to moisture stress.- Chapter 5. Low light-induced changes in tea metabolite- A review.- Chapter 6. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation and Ozone: molecular and physiological adaptations in tea.- Chapter 7. Elevated carbon dioxide-induced perturbations in metabolism of tea plants.- Chapter 8. Nutrient deficiency or abundance in tea plants: Metabolism to productivity.- Chapter 9. Understanding and exploiting the impact of heavy metals stress on tea physiology and quality.- Chapter 10. Differential changes in tea quality as influenced by insect herbivory.- Chapter 11. Molecular and physiological mechanisms of defense against pathogens in tea plants.- Chapter 12. Role of micro-organism in improving stress tolerance of tea in the context of global climate change.- Chapter 13. Plant hormones as mediators of stress tolerance in tea plants.- Chapter 14. Understanding metabolomics of tea for improving stress tolerance.- Chapter 15. Toward the development of climate resilient tea: Physiological and molecular intervention.