Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress

The latest update on improving crop resistance to abiotic stress using the advanced key methods of proteomics, genomics and metabolomics. The wellbalanced
international mix of contributors from industry and academia cover work carried out on individual crop plants, while also including studies of model organisms that can then be applied to specific crop plants

Contents
Preface
Foreword

Volume I
PART I INTRODUCTION INTO PLANT ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSE
Understanding the `Commoneome? Operative in Plants in Response to Various Abiotic Stresses (Hemant R Kushwaha, Sneh L Singla-Pareek, Sudhir K Sopory, and Ashwani Pareek)
Abiotic-Stress Tolerance in Plants: An Industry Perspective (Shoba Sivasankar, Robert W. Williams, and Thomas W. Greene)
Generation and Scavenging of Reactive Oxygen Species in Plants under Stress (Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Lamabam Peter Singh, Ritu Gill, and Narendra Tuteja)
Salinity Stress: A Major Constraint in Crop Production (Narendra Tuteja, Lamabam Peter Singh, Sarvajeet Singh Gill and Renu Tuteja)
Cold Stress and Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants (Wenqiong J. Chen)
Mechanism of Sulfur dioxide Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants (Lamabam Peter Singh, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Ritu Gill, and Narendra Tuteja)
Excess Soil Phosphorus: Accelerated P Transfer, Water Quality Deterioration and Sustainable Remediation Strategies (Nilesh C. Sharma, and Shivendra V. Sahi)

PART II METHODS TO IMPROVE PLANT ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSE
IIA Introductory Methods
Genetic Modification of Crops: Past, Present and Future (Nina V Fedoroff)
Translational Biology Approaches to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops (Rina Iannacone, Francesco Cellini, Giorgio Morelli, and Ida Ruberti)
IIB Omics
Functional Genomics of Drought Tolerance in Crops: Engineering Transcriptional Regulators and Pathways (Bala Rathinasabapathi)
Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Approaches to the Analysis of Plant Freezing Tolerance and Cold Acclimation (Dirk K. Hincha, Carmen Espinoza, and Ellen Zuther)
Omics Techniques in Crop Research: An Overview (B. Fakrudin, Roberto Tuberosa, and Rajeev K Varshney)
The Use of ' Omics' Approaches in Arabidopsis for the Improvement of Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Aleksandra Skirycz, and Matthew A Hannah)
Functional Genomics and Computational Biology Tools for Gene Discovery for Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Kailash C. Bansal, Amit Katiyar, Shuchi Smita, and Viswanathan Chinnusamy)
Transcriptomics and Proteomics Approaches for Salinity Tolerance in Crop Plants (Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill, Iqbal Ahmad, Narendra Tuteja, Praveen Soni, Ashwani Pareek, Shahid Umar, Muhammad Iqbal, Mário Pacheco, Armando C. Duarte, and Eduarda Pereira)
Plant Tissue Culture and Genetic Transformation for Crop Improvement (SS Gosal, and MS Kang)
A Systems-Based Molecular Biology Analysis of Resurrection Plants for Crop and Forage Improvement in Arid Environments (John P. Moore, and Jill Farrant)

IIC Other Approaches
Molecular Breeding for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance using Halophytes (Ajay Parida, Suja George, and K. Kavita)
Helicases in Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants (Narendra Tuteja, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, and Renu Tuteja)
Transcription Factors: Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (Pil Joon Seo, Jae-Hoon Jung, and Chung-Mo Park)
Make Your Best: MYB Transcription Factors for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops (Andrea Pitzschke)
Transporters and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (Vandna Rai, Narendra Tuteja, and Teruhiro Takabe)
Potassium and Sodium Transporters: Improving Salinity Tolerance in Plants (Toshio Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki Uozumi, and Tomoaki Horie)
Piriformospora indica, A Root Endophytic Fungus, Enhances Abiotic Stress Tolerance of the Host Plant (Manoj Kumar, Ruby Sharma, Abhimanyu Jogawat, Pratap Singh, Meenakshi Dua, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Dipesh Kumar Trivedi, Narendra Tuteja, Ajit Kumar Verma, Ralf Oelmuller, and Atul Kumar Johri)
The Micromics Revolution: microRNA-Mediated Approaches to Develop Stress Resistant Crops (Camilo López, and Álvaro L Pérez-Quintero)
Transcription Factors: Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (Tetsuya Ishida, Yuriko Osakabe, and Shuichi Yanagisawa)
Polyamines in Developing Stress Resistant Crops (F Marco, R Alcázar, T Altabella, P Carrasco, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Narendra Tuteja, and AF Tiburcio)


Volume II
PART II