This book discusses approaches to enhance abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants on a global scale. Plants scientists and breeders will learn how to further mitigate plant responses and develop new crop varieties for the changing climate.

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