MULTI-AUTHORED MONOGRAPH "REGULATION OF ADAPTIVE RESPONSES IN PLANTS"

Nova Science Publishers (New York, USA) published the multi-authored monograph "Regulation of Adaptive Responses in Plants" edited by researchers of the Yuriev Plant Production Institute of NAAS of Ukraine, Tetiana Yastreb and Yuriy Kolupaev, and the Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics of NAS of Ukraine, Alla Yemets and Yaroslav Blume (https://novapublishers.com/shop/regulation-of-adaptive-responses-in-plants/ ). The lectures of scientists from six countries (Ukraine, Poland, the USA, Lithuania, Italy, and the Czech Republic) given at the 2^nd International Conference "Stress and Adaptation of Plants", which was organized by the Yuriev Plant Production Institute and the Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics in June 2023, have become the basis for the monograph.

The accumulation of knowledge about the mechanisms of regulation of adaptive responses of plants to adverse factors gained particular dynamism during the last quarter of the 20^th century. This was prompted by sequencing the genomes of higher plants at the turn of the 20^th and 21^st centuries, making general conceptions on the transmission of external and internal signals in plant cells, and further developing "omics" - transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics. In this regard, significant progress was made in understanding the mechanisms of the development of induced tolerance in plants and the formation of their stress "memory". In the monograph, these issues are discussed and exemplified by cellular mechanisms of cross-adaptation of domestic plants to drought, high temperatures, and other adverse factors. The monograph also presents analytical reviews of the mechanisms of stress-protective actions of new groups of plant hormones and hormone-like compounds - jasmonate salicylates, melatonin, gamma-aminobutyric acid, etc. The emergence of new anthropogenic factors, in particular new xenobiotics, including those formulated as nanoparticles, became another challenge for researchers of stresses in plants. One of the chapters of the new book analyzes the impact of plastic pollution on agricultural crops and the associated threats to human health.

The preparation of the monograph became an incentive for deepening the cooperation between Ukrainian researchers of plant stress physiology and leading scientific teams working in this field in Western countries.