Physiology of Plants Under Abiotic Stress and Climate Change

I. Nutriophysiology and mineral nutrient stresses: 1. Physiological and molecular approaches to improve crop tolerance to mineral nutrient deficiency and heavy metal toxicity/Bhupinder Singh, Pratibha, Chandan Kumar Gupta, Sumedha Ahuja, Kalidindi Usha and Raghu Nath Pandey. 2. Role of mineral nutrients in physiology, ripening and storability of fruits/Vijay Paul, Rakesh Pandey, Ramesh K.V. and Atar Singh. 3. Phytonutrients in potato/R. Ezekiel. 4. Nutrient stress induced oxidative damage in plants/Nalini Pandey. 5. Change in global climatic pattern and the perils of grain yield loss and iron stress in rice plant/P.K. Mohapatra, E. Kariali, B.B. Panda and A. Das. II. Environmental stresses: molecular and physiological aspects: 6. Environmental stresses and transgenics: role of zfp zat gene in multiple stress tolerance in plants/Avinash Chandra Rai, Major Singh and Kavita Shah. 7. An overview on QTLs linked to physio morphological traits under water limited conditions in rice Oryza sativa L/Beena R. 8. Crosstalk between genes in salicylic acid and jasmonic acid mediated signaling in plants exposed to environmental stresses/Indra Singh and Kavita Shah. 9. Heat stress responses of wheat and other plants/A. Hemantaranjan, Pradeep Kumar Patel, Radha Singh and Abhishek Kumar Srivastava. 10. Salinity stress responses in plants: physiochemical and biotechnological approaches/Sananda Mondal and Bandana Bose. 11. Reactive oxygen species: dual role in seed physiology/Giti Verma and Samir Sharma. III. Heavy metal stresses: 12. Phytochelatins: natural chelating agents involved in plant protection/Enrique J. Baran. 13. Metal, toxicity, production of reactive oxygen species and their consequences in plants/Rajneesh Kumar Srivastava and Rama Shanker Dubey. 14. Impact of heavy metal induced oxidative stress in plant system: some aspects/M.K. Adak, C. Mandal, N. Ghosh and N. Dey. IV. Stress control measures and phytoremediation: 15. Biodrainage: a waterlogging and salinity control option/C. Rani, R. Angrish, O.P. Toky, K.S. Datta, V. Arora and S. Chawla. 16. Postharvest changes in fresh commodities with special reference to nutraceuticals under abiotic stress conditions/P. Jeyakumar. 17. Phytoremediation: tool for in Situ risk reduction/Padmanabh Dwivedi and Prasann Kumar. V. Plant Growth regulators: 18. The journey a long chain aliphatic alcohols since 1933: bioregulating properties of long chain aliphatic alcohols-a review/Nisha Raghava and Ravindra Pratap Raghava. Subject Index.