Approaches for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants Profiling and CounterAction

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.

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

Nataš a Č erekovič , 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