Note: I was contacted by the author’s team to review “Stress in Plants: The Hidden Half by Rishikesh Upadhyay.” However, all the thoughts and opinions I have shared on this post are my own.
About The Book
This book, in a comprehensive manner, provides an overview of the challenges of increasing crop or agricultural productivity to meet the demands of a growing population, linking descriptions of physiological, ecological, biochemical and molecular activity in plants with their tolerance and adaptation to natural environments. In the case of plants, a stress is an adverse condition or substance that affects or blocks a plant’s metabolism, growth, or development.
The threat to productivity in crops and agriculture due to these stresses cannot be overstated, nor overlooked, especially in light of climate change.
The information covered in this book will be helpful in building strategies to counter the impact of stress on plants. The book also provides an overview of the essential disciplines required for sustainable crop and agricultural production for policymakers, scientists, academics, and students of plant science, agricultural science, environmental science, biochemistry, biotechnology, and related areas.
About The Author
Rishikesh Upadhyay was born, grew up and lives in Bhanjang Basti, Haflong (erstwhile Bhanjyang Basti), a small Nepalis’ hamlet, via Mahadev Tilla, at Haflong, the district headquarter of North Cachar Hills (now Dima Hasao), India. He writes articles, research article, nonfiction titles, book chapters, poems, children’s, short stories, etc. and has spent the past decade working and teaching in higher educational institutions. His works have been appeared, quoted and cited in several international journals and books of repute.
Dr. Upadhyay can be reached online at –
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h232zIsAAAAJ
Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/in/rishikesh-upadhyay-814a8a1a/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17275904.Rishikesh_Upadhyay
My Thoughts On Stress in Plants: The Hidden Half by Rishikesh Upadhyay
I just want to mention once more that I was given a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The opinions I will share about it are my own. I was not asked by the author or authors team to share a positive review, only a genuine one.
You may be wondering why I agreed to review a book about plants. It’s clearly well out of my comfort zone when it comes to books. However, one of the things I wanted to do last year was try things that were out of my comfort zone. And that included reading books I otherwise would not have. And I was glad I accepted to review this one because it turned out to be quite interesting as well as eye-opening.
Specifics
I know that stress does affect plants and agriculture but I never knew the specifics of it. I also did not realise how many different types of stresses there were for plants. And the different effects each of them had on plants.
In particular, this was a fascinating topic for me because my ancestors actually moved to Kenya from India in the year 1900 because of agricultural issues. You see, colonisation had destroyed much of the land and agriculture in South Asia. Which led to South Asians experiencing over 30 famines during colonisation due to forced changes in agricultural practices and hoarding of resources by colonisers.
So, learning about how external factors in their environment and stress can causes issues in agriculture was fascinating.
The book also mentions current issues like the changes in climate, harmful chemicals in the soil, natural disasters such as flooding etc and how all this affects plants.
From what I’ve learnt in this book, plants are so much more aware of their environment and internal/external factors than we realise. They’re also very sensitive and since they are vital for the survival of the human race we need to be doing a lot better for the environment than we’re currently doing.
Overall
The book is well over two hundred pages so it did take me a while to finish reading it. However, it was worth it. I don’t know much about plants and I don’t read a lot of non-fiction books. In fact, I haven’t even been reading a lot of peer reviewed articles since I finished my degree. But this got me back into it, feeling like I was in uni again.
I want to start by saying that Rishikesh Upadhyay has clearly done ample amounts of research on this topic. And it so clearly shows. This book is very well written and one thing I enjoyed was that all his sources were clearly listed. That means that if you’re like me and might find yourself needing more information about certain specifics he mentions, it’s very easy for you to find his sources and read more about the topic.
The writer presents each chapter well and every chapter is filled with ample amounts of information about different types of hidden stress in plants. Although there is so much information packed into each chapter, it’s not boring or difficult to read. Trust me, if I can read it so can you.
Final Thoughts
If you’re interested in botany or even non-fiction books in general, do give this one a try. Even if you just want to try new genres this year. I thought it was fascinating to read even though I know very little about the topic. As I mentioned, it was well researched, written and put together.
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