Contents
Preface.........................................................................................................................................................................ix
About the Editors........................................................................................................................................................xi
List of Contributors .................................................................................................................................................. xiii
Chapter 1 Abiotic Stress in Plants: A General Outline............................................................................................1
Ashutosh K. Pandey, Annesha Ghosh, Kshama Rai, Adeeb Fatima, Madhoolika Agrawal, and
S.B. Agrawal
Chapter 2 Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Production, with Special Reference to Southeast Asia...............47
Jong Ahn Chun, Christianne M. Aikins, Daeha Kim, Sanai Li, Wooseop Lee, and Eun-Jeong Lee
Chapter 3 Plant Responses and Tolerance to Salt Stress........................................................................................ 61
Babar Shahzad, Shah Fahad, Mohsin Tanveer, Shah Saud, and Imtiaz Ali Khan
Chapter 4 Plant Responses and Tolerance to Drought...........................................................................................79
Sumit Jangra, Aakash Mishra, Priti, Disha Kamboj, Neelam R. Yadav, and Ram C. Yadav
Chapter 5 Plants Signaling Toward Drought Stress...............................................................................................99
Muhammad Jamil, Aamir Ali, Alvina Gul, Khalid Farooq Akbar, Abdul Aziz Napa, and
A. Mujeeb-Kazi
Chapter 6 Variability in Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Mechanisms of Chickpea Varieties to
Water Stress......................................................................................................................................... 113
Natas a C erekovic , Nadia Fatnassi, Angelo Santino, and Palmiro Poltronieri
Chapter 7 Plant Responses and Mechanisms of Tolerance to Cold Stress...........................................................129
Aruna V. Varanasi, Nicholas E. Korres, and Vijay K. Varanasi
Chapter 8 Unraveling the Molecular and Biochemical Mechanisms of Cold Stress Tolerance in Rice.............. 149
Joseph Msanne, Lymperopoulos Panagiotis, Roel C. Rabara, and Supratim Basu
Chapter 9 Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants and Its Mitigation.............................................................................. 171
Roomina Mazhar and Noshin Ilyas
Chapter 10 Nutrient Deficiency and Toxicity Stress in Crop Plants: Lessons from Boron.................................... 179
Himanshu Bariya, Durgesh Nandini, and Ashish Patel
Chapter 11 Plant Responses to Ozone Stress: Actions and Adaptations................................................................ 193
Santisree Parankusam, Srivani S. Adimulam, Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur, and Kiran K. Sharma
Chapter 12 Hydrocarbon Contamination in Soil and its Amelioration.................................................................. 219
Maimona Saeed and Noshin Ilyas
Chapter 13 Abiotic Stress-Mediated Oxidative Damage in Plants: An Overview.................................................227
Ruchi Rai, Shilpi Singh, Shweta Rai, Alka Shankar, Antara Chatterjee and L.C. Rai
Chapter 14 Plant Antioxidant Response During Abiotic Stress: Role of Transcription Factors............................ 253
Deyvid Novaes Marques, Savio Pinho dos Reis, Nicolle Louise Ferreira Barros, Liliane de
Souza Conceicao Tavares and Claudia Regina Batista de Souza
Chapter 15 Approaches to Enhance Antioxidant Defense in Plants......................................................................273
Hamid Mohammadi, Saeid Hazrati, and Mohsen Janmohammadi
Chapter 16 Coordination and Auto-propagation of ROS Signaling in Plants........................................................299
Suruchi Singh, Abdul Hamid, Madhoolika Agrawal, and S.B. Agrawal
Chapter 17 Regulation of Osmolytes Syntheses and Improvement of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants............ 311
Ambuj Bhushan Jha and Pallavi Sharma
Chapter 18 The Role of Plasma Membrane Proteins in Tolerance of Dehydration in the Plant Cell.................... 339
Pragya Barua, Dipak Gayen, Nilesh Vikram Lande, Subhra Chakraborty, and
Niranjan Chakraborty
Chapter 19 Trehalose Metabolism in Plants Under Abiotic Stresses.....................................................................349
Qasim Ali, Sumreena Shahid, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Tariq Javed, Naeem Iqbal, Noman
Habib, Syed Makhdoom Hussain, Shahzad Ali Shahid, Zahra Noreen, Abdullah Ijaz Hussain,
and Muhammad Zulqurnain Haider
Chapter 20 The Proline Metabolism of Durum Wheat Dehydrin Transgenic Context and Salt Tolerance
Acquisition in Arabidopsis thaliana...................................................................................................365
Faical Brini, Hassiba Bouazzi, Kaouthar Feki, and Walid Saibi
Chapter 21 Nitric Oxide-Induced Tolerance in Plants under Adverse Environmental Conditions........................ 371
Neidiquele M. Silveira, Amedea B. Seabra, Eduardo C. Machado, John T. Hancock, and Rafael
V. Ribeiro
Chapter 22 Molecular Mechanisms of Polyamines-Induced Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants...........................387
Agnes Szepesi
Chapter 23 Molecular Approaches for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants..........................................405
Sushma Mishra, Dipinte Gupta and Rajiv Ranjan
Chapter 24 Genomic Approaches for Understanding Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants.....................................423
Richa Rai, Amit Kumar Rai, and Madhoolika Agrawal
Chapter 25 Hallmark Attributes of Plant Transcription Factors and Potentials of WRKY, MYB and NAC in
Abiotic Stresses................................................................................................................................... 441
Sami Ullah Jan, Muhammad Jamil, Muhammad Faraz Bhatti, and Alvina Gul
Chapter 26 Application of CRISPR-Cas Genome Editing Tools for the Improvement of Plant Abiotic Stress
Tolerance............................................................................................................................................. 459
Pankaj Bhowmik, Md. Mahmudul Hassan, Kutubuddin Molla, Mahfuzur Rahman, and
Tofazzal Islam
Chapter 27 Beneficial Microorganisms and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants.................................................... 473
Antara Chatterjee, Alka Shankar, Shilpi Singh, Vigya Kesari, Ruchi Rai, Amit Kumar Patel,
and L.C. Rai
Index........................................................................................................................................................................503
