Plants often encounter abiotic stresses including drought, salinity, flooding, high/low temperatures, and metal toxicity, among others. The majority of these stresses occur simultaneously and thus limit crop production. Therefore, the need of the hour is to improve the abiotic stresses tolerance of crop plants by integrating physiology, omics, and modern breeding approaches. This book covers various aspects including (1) abiotic stress responses in plants and progress made so far in the allied areas for trait improvements, (2) integrates knowledge gained from basic physiology to advanced omics tools to assist new breeding technologies, and (3) discusses key genes, proteins, and metabolites or pathways for developing new crop varieties with improved tolerance traits.
Table of Contents:
1. Physiological, Molecular, and Biochemical Responses of Rice to Drought Stress
2. Coordinated Functions of Reactive Oxygen Species Metabolism and Defense Systems in Abiotic Stress Tolerance
3. Nitric Oxide- Mediated Salinity Stress Tolerance in Plants: Signaling and Physiological Perspectives
4. S- Nitrosylation and Denitrosylation: A Regulatory Mechanism during Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops
5. Calcium Signaling Is a Hub of the Signaling Network in Response and Adaptation of Plants to Heat Stress
6. Functions of Polyamines in Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
7. Decoding the Multifaceted Role of Glycine Betaine in Heavy Metal Stress Regulation
8. Abiotic stress and its role in altering the nutritional landscape of food crops
9. Plants transcription factors from halophytes and their role in salinity and drought stress tolerance
10. Plant abiotic stress tolerance on the transcriptomics atlas
11. Deciphering the molecular mechanism of salinity tolerance in halophytes using transcriptome analysis
12. Seed aging in crops: A proteomics perspective
13. Crop Proteomics: Towards Systemic Analysis of Abiotic Stress Responses
14. Metabolites and abiotic stress tolerance in plants
15. Genome editing for developing abiotic stress-resilient plants
16. Molecular breeding in rice for abiotic stress resilience: The story since 2004
17. Nanotechnology in developing abiotic stress resilience in crops: a physiological implication
