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The world population has increased dramatically in the past century, generating a concern for progressive and sustainable food production. It is expected to further increase by 1.3 billion in 2030 and by 2.5 billion in 2050, reaching 9.7 billion. To provide food security to this growing population, the world food production may need to increase by 60-110%. Biotic and abiotic stresses are major threat to plant growth and halt them from reaching their full genetic potential and ultimately limiting their productivity. High yield varieties are confronted by various stresses which lead to huge loss in production and productivity. Understanding the mechanisms involved in the response of plants to adverse environmental conditions is the first step in the generation of crops with higher tolerance to these stresses. This book provides a broad overview of biotic and abiotic stresses, their mechanisms and different strategies to improve stress tolerance in crop plants.

This book is a valuable source book for students, teachers, researchers engaged in stress physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology, plant breeding and soil science.

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Reactive Oxygen Species: Generation, Scavenging and their Role in Cell Signalling in Plants/Praduman Yadav, Sunil Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, Md. Sharif Baba and Iyln Murthy. 2. Calcium Mediated Pathogen Defense System/Manu Pratap Gangola. 3. Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Tolerance/Ranjit Singh Gujjar. 4. MAPK Signaling Modules in Stress/K. Prabhakara Rao, Monika Jaggi, K. Sarala and T.G.K. Murthy. 5. Plant Hormones and Stress/Vikender Kaur, Anita Kumari and Sunder Singh. 6. Plant Stress Regulation/R.S. Pal, P.K. Agrawal, J.C. Bhatt and Praduman Yadav. 7. Salinity Stress in Plants/Reena Devi and Veena Jain. 8. Recent Advances in Populus euphratica in Relation to Salinity Stress/Vishnu Dayal Rajput and Chen Yanning. 9. Chilling Stress Tolerance in Plants: Physiology and Mechanisms/Ashok Kumar Yadav, Somu Kaundal, Akhil Sharma and Sanatsujat Singh. 10. Heat Stress Response in Plants/Torit Baran Bagchi and Soham Ray. 11. Drought Tolerance in Crops/Anup Singh. 12. Aluminium Stress in Crop Plants/Ana Luisa Garcia-Oliveira, Subhash Chander, Juan Barcelo and Charlotte Poschenrieder. 13. An Insight into Plant Growth and Metabolism in Relation to Hexavalent Chromium/Punesh Sangwan and Vinod Kumar. 14. Waterlogging Stress: An Overview/Ruchi Bansal and Ram Swaroop Jat. 15. Anthropogenic Induced Stress and its Impact on Plants/Subodh Kr. Bishnoi and Naresh Kr. Yadav. 16. Breeding for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants/H.P. Meena, Naresh Kumar Bainsla and D.K. Yadav. 17. Breeding for Resistance to Biotic Stresses in Plants/Naresh Kumar Bainsla and H.P. Meena. 18. Transgenic Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants/B. Usha Kiran and M. Sujatha. 19. Transgenic Approaches for Biotic Stress Tolerance in Plants/K. Lakshmi, C. Appunu, Ravinder Kumar, M.R. Meena and Deepak Kumar Yadav. 20. Advances in Biotechnology for Development of Submergence Tolerance in Crops/Nikhil Khurana and Jitender Kumar. 21. Proteomic Perspectives on Understanding Plant Stress Response/Prathap Reddy Kallamadi, Kamakshi Dandu, Sudheendra Hebbar, Pardeep Kumar and Ramesh Bellamkonda. 22. Role of Molecular Markers for Improvement of Stress Tolerance in Crops/P. Kadirvel, S. Senthilvel and S. Geethanjali. Index.