Approaches for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants

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