Stress Physiology of Tea in the Face of Climate Change

This book focuses on the existing knowledge regarding the effect of global climate change on tea plant physiology, biochemistry, and metabolism as well as economic and societal aspects of the tea industry. Specifically, this book synthesizes recent advances in the physiological and molecular mechanisms of the responses of tea plants to various abiotic and biotic stressors including high temperature, low temperature or freezing, drought, low light, UV radiation, elevated CO₂, ozone, nutrient deficiency, insect herbivory, and pathogenic agents. This book also discusses challenges and potential management strategies for sustaining tea yield and quality in the face of climate change. 

Dr. Wen-Yan Han is a Professor and Dr. Xin Li is an Associate Professor at the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (TRI, CAAS), Hangzhou, PR China. Dr. Golam Jalal Ahammed is an Associate Professor at the Department of Horticulture, College of Forestry, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, PR 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. 

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.