Exogenous Priming and Engineering of Plant Metabolic and Regulatory Genes: Stress Mitigation Strategies in Plants provides insights into metabolic adjustment, their regulation, and the regulatory networks involved in plants responding to stress situations. It contains comprehensive information, combining mechanistic priming and engineering approaches from the conventional to those recently developed. In addition, the book addresses seed priming, tolerance mechanisms, pre-and post-treatment, as well as sensory response, and genetic manipulation. From basic concepts to modern technologies and prevailing policies, readers will find this book useful in enhancing their understanding of the area as well as helping in identifying approaches for future research.

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Rewiring stress responses in plants: Exogenous priming 1. Exogenous priming and abiotic stress challenges Murat Dikilitas, Asif B. Shikari, Behzat Baran and Avinash Mishra 2. Reprograming stress memory in plants: primeomics Manish Kumar Patel, Sonika Pandey, Md. Intesaful Haque, Rajesh Kumar Jha and Avinash Mishra 3. Concepts and possibilities in priming- mediated cross-tolerance to plant stress Vikash Kumar, Mohini Yadav, Maneesha S. Saxena and Saurabh C. Saxena 4. Natural compound priming induces abiotic stress tolerance in plants: possible mechanisms Ashutosh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Jha, Vinod K. Nigam, Dev Mani Pandey and Aakanksha Wany 5. Natural priming agents of plants to alleviate multiple stress tolerance Hemanth Kumar Manne, Nisha Kumari, Sonia, Vaishnavi Kodidhala, Sushil, Ram Avtar, Minakshi Jattan, Babita Rani, Jyothi Duhan and Sunayana Rati 6. Nanoparticles-based biopriming for enhanced biotic stress mitigation Babita Choudhary and Avinash Mishra 7. Alterations in plant primary and secondary metabolism by priming Meenakshi Rawat, Khushbu Kumari, Anita Kumari, Jhilmil Nath, Suman Gusain, Shubham Joshi and Rohit Joshi 8. Cold priming and memory induced acquired tolerance and possible mechanism in plants Suman Gusain, Shubham Joshi, Anita Kumari, Jhilmil Nath, Khushbu Kumari, Meenakshi Rawat and Rohit Joshi 9. Redox priming of seeds to ameliorate salinity tolerance in plants Sadiq Hussain, Aysha Rasheed, Farah Nisar, Bilquees Gul and Abdul Hameed 10. Efficacy and mechanisms of seed priming with melatonin to enhance salinity tolerance Sadiq Hussain, Aysha Rasheed, Farah Nisar, Bilquees Gul and Abdul Hameed 11. Exogenous proline-mediated stress tolerance in plants Huseyin Turker, Sevingul Beydilli, Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal and Dilek Unal 12. Modulation of abiotic stress tolerance in plants by exogenous glycine betaine Rajesh Kumar Jha, Subhash Chandra Prasad, Ashutosh Kumar, Aakanksha Wany and Avinash Mishra 13. Hormones priming: regulator for stress tolerance in plants Pankaj Kumar Tripathi, Preeti Patel, Prachi Garg, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Manikant Tripathi, Neelam Pathak and Pankaj Singh 14. Mechanisms of priming in enhancing stress tolerance Asif B. Shikari, Murat Dikilitas, Behzat Baran and Avinash Mishra 15. An overview of the effect of seed priming induced physiochemical and molecular processes in plants: abiotic stress tolerance Tamanna Sharma, Ayushi Malik, Anukrati Dhabhai, Shalini Tailor, Khushboo Jain, Mukesh Meena and Avinash Marwal 16. Epigenetic and chromatin based plant stress adaptation Rekha Agrawal, Akshita Chaudhary, Amrita Singh and Jitendra Kumar Thakur 17. Epigenetic memory in plants for stress response and adaptation Rekha Agrawal, Amrita Singh and Jitendra Kumar Thakur Section 2: Mitigating stress by engineering metabolic/regulatory genes 18. Mechanisms of sensing abiotic stress responses in plants Hansa Sehgal, Chandrakant Pant, Soham Ray, Nidhi Sharma and Mukul Joshi 19. Salinity stress tolerance in plants: antioxidant defense mechanisms and latest developments Hadi Pirasteh-Anosheh, Munir Ozturk, Alvina Gul, Volkan Altay, Pedro Garcia-Caparros, Seyedeh Elahe Hashemi, Nida Mushtaq, Aneeqa Hanif, Kristina Toderich, Tuba Arjumend and Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal 20. Metabolic genes: a toolbox for combating salt and drought stress in crop improvement Anmol Gupta, Kratika Singh, Priyam Vandana, Lalit Dev Tiwari and Manoj Kumar 21. Metabolic genes: a toolbox for crop improvement by mitigating the effects of metal and waterlogging stress Sonia, Nisha Kumari, Hemanthkumar Manne, Vaishnavi Kodidhala, Sushil, Ram Avtar, Minakshi Jattan, Babita Rani, Gurumurthy Peddinti and Sunayana Rati 22. Genetic manipulation for stress-tolerant plants: current status and challenges Swati Gupta, Rimjim Gupta, Sanjana Kaul and Manoj K. Dhar 23. Regulatory genes for the improvement of salt and drought tolerance Shweta Jha, Jawahar Singh, Subhajit Dutta, Vishal Varshney, Vishnu Mishra, Deepak Choudhary and Nisha Tak 24. Drought stress and the effectiveness of transcriptomics in identifying drought tolerance mechanisms in plants Walter Chitarra, Federico Vita, Fabiano Sillo, Marzia Vergine, Raffaella Balestrini and Chiara Pagliarani 25. Plant gene networks involved in drought stress response and tolerance Sourobh Maji and Nidhi Dwivedi 26. Regulatory genes in water logging stress: submergence effect and postsubmergence recovery Sonika Pandey, Manish Kumar Patel and Avinash Mishra 27. Reactive oxygen species under stress acclimation in plants Amit Kumar Chaturvedi 28. Reactive nitrogen species and their role in stress tolerance Aakanksha Wany, Ashutosh Kumar, Rajesh K. Jha, Maria Kanuga, Vinod K. Nigam and Dev Mani Pandey 29. Transcription factors: enhancing resilience to abiotic stress Pramod Kumar, Jyoti Chaudhary, Aradhana Dwivedi, Manu Bamal, Premlata, Abhijit Bhatkal, Mahendra Kumar Chouhan, Devesh Tewari and Satisha Hegde 30. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of salt and drought stress Vivek Yadav and Mohd Talha Ansari 31. Crosstalk and interaction among salt stress tolerance pathways Ishfaq Majid Hurrah, Tabasum Mohiuddin, Sayanti Mandal, Vinay Kumar and Astha Gupta 32. Cold tolerance and mitigation mechanisms in plants Era Vaidya Malhotra and Sangita Bansal 33. Thermo-primed cellular networks for plant stress management Vidhi Raturi and Gaurav Zinta 34. The use of CRISPR/Cas tools versus a transgenic technique Lavanya Gunamalai, D. Roselin Jenifer, Angelene Hannah Jebarani D. and M. Anisha