Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Fourth Edition

Section I Soil Salinity and Sodicity Problems
Chapter 1 Soil Salinity and Sodicity as Particular Plant/Crop Stress Factors 
[Mohammad Pessarakli and I. Szabolcs]
Section II Plants/Crops Tolerance Mechanisms and Stressful Conditions
Chapter 2 Roles and Mechanisms of Rhizobacteria in Regulating Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stress 
[William Errickson and Bingru Huang]
Chapter 3 Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Post-Drought Stress
Recovery in Grass Species 
[Cathryn Chapman and Bingru Huang]
Chapter 4 Regulatory Mechanisms for Stress-Induced Leaf Senescence 
[Stephanie Rossi and Bingru Huang]
Chapter 5 Mechanisms of Salt Tolerance in Submerged Aquatic Macrophytes 
[Rout Nutan Prasad, Shaw Birendra Prasad, and Rodríguez-Garay Benjamín]
Chapter 6 Oxidative Stress in Plants: Production, Metabolism, and Biological Roles of Reactive Oxygen Species 
[Mojtaba Kordrostami, Babak Rabiei, and Ali Akbar Ebadi]
Chapter 7 Oxidative Stress and Antioxidative Defense System in Plants Growing under Abiotic Stresses 
[Pallavi Sharma, Ambuj Bhushan Jha, and Rama Shanker Dubey]
Chapter 8 Plant Biochemical Mechanisms for the Maintenance of Oxidative Stress under Control Conditions 
[Diego G. Arias, Claudia V. Piattoni, Sergio A. Guerrero, and Alberto A. Iglesias]
Chapter 9 Role of Proline and Other Osmoregulatory Compounds in Plant Responses to Abiotic Stresses 
[Ehsan Shakeri, Ali Akbar Mozafari, Fatemeh Sohrabi, and Armin Saed-Moucheshi]
Chapter 10 Role of Dehydrins in Plant Stress Response 
[Klára Kosová, Ilja Tom Prášil, and Pavel Vítámvás]
Chapter 11 Strigolactone Plant Hormone’s Role in Plant Stress Responses 
[Fatemeh Aflaki, Arman Pazuki, and Mohammad Pessarakli]
Chapter 12 Plant Abiotic Stress Proteomics: An Insight into Plant Stress Response at Proteome Level 
[Klára Kosová, Milan Oldřich Urban, Pavel Vítámvás, and Ilja Tom Prášil]
Section III Plants and Crops Responses: Physiology, Cellular and
Molecular Biology, Microbiological Aspects, and Whole
Plant Responses under Salt, Drought, Heat, Cold
Temperature, Light, Nutrients, and Other Stressful Conditions
Chapter 13 Responses of Photosynthetic Apparatus to Salt Stress: Structure, Function, and Protection 
[M. Stefanov, A.K. Biswal, M. Misra, A. N. Misra, and E.L. Apostolova]
Chapter 14 Responses of Plants to Stresses of the Sonoran Desert 
[Thomas W Crawford, Jr]
Chapter 15 Stresses in Pasture Areas in South-Central Apennines, Italy, and Evolution at Landscape Level
[A. Fatica, L. Circelli, E. Di Iorio, C. Colombo, T. W. Crawford, Jr. and E. Salimei]
Chapter 16 Turfgrass Nutrient Management under Stresses: A Part of Integrated Stress Management
[Haibo Liu, Nick Menchyk, Frank Bethea, Christian Baldwin, Jacob Taylor, and Caleb Patrick]
Chapter 17 Nutrient Management of Golf Course Putting Greens under Stress
[Haibo Liu, Nick Menchyk, Frank Bethea, Christian Baldwin, Jacob Taylor, and Caleb Patrick]
Chapter 18 Molecular Chaperones and Acquisition of Thermotolerance in Plants
[Hitoshi Nakamoto and Tahmina Akter]
Chapter 19 Phytohormone Homeostasis and Crosstalk Effects in Response to Osmotic Stress
[Omid Askari-Khorasgani and Mohammad Pessarakli]
Chapter 20 Heliotropism: Plants Follow the Sun
[Yehouda Marcus]
Chapter 21 Carbon Metabolic Pathways and Relationships with Plant Stress
[Carlos M. Figueroa, Romina I. Minen, Florencio E. Podestá, and Alberto A. Iglesias]
Chapter 22 Protein Synthesis by Plants Under Stressful Conditions
[Pallavi Sharma and R. S. Dubey]
Chapter 23 Ultraviolet Effects on Plants: Harmful or Beneficial?
[Arman Pazuki, Fatemeh Aflaki, and Mohammad Pessarakli]
Section IV Plants and Crops Responses under
Pollution and Heavy Metal Stresses
Chapter 24 Plant Heavy Metal Interactions and Pollution Stress
[Mojtaba Kordrostami, Ali Akbar Ebadi, Babak Rabiei, and Mohammad Mafakheri]
Chapter 25 Plant Responses to Stress Induced by Toxic Metals and Their Nanoforms
[Kráľová Katarína, Masarovičová Elena, and Jampílek Josef]
Chapter 26 Turfgrass Hyper-Accumulative Characteristics to Alleviate Heavy and Toxic Metal Stresses
[Haibo Liu, Nick Menchyk, Frank Bethea, Christian Baldwin, Jacob Taylor, and Caleb Patrick]
Section V Plant and Crop Responses under Biotic Stress
Chapter 27 How Crops Stress Weeds
[Jack Dekker]
Section VI Genetic Factors and Plant/Crop Genomics under Stress Conditions
Chapter 28 Candidate Gene Expression Involved in Plant Osmotic Tolerance
[Mojtaba Kordrostami and Ali Akbar Ebadi]
Chapter 29 Drought-Induced Gene Expression Reprogramming Associated with Plant Metabolic Alterations and
Adaptation
[Omid Askari-Khorasgani and Mohammad Pessarakli]
Section VII Plant/Crop Breeding under Stress Conditions
Chapter 30 Marker-Assisted Breeding for Disease Resistance in Legume Vegetable Crops
[Bhallan Singh Sekhon, Akhilesh Sharma, and Rakesh Kumar Chahota]
Chapter 31 Breeding for Improved Crop Resistance to Osmotic Stress
[Mojtaba Kordrostami and Babak Rabiei]
Chapter 32 Breeding for Improved Plant–Symbiont Thermotolerance and Symbiotic Performance by
Regulating Heat Shock Proteins, RNA Binding Proteins, and Chaperones
[Omid Askari-Khorasgani and Mohammad Pessarakli]
Section VIII Examples of Empirical Investigations of Specific
Plants and Crops Grown under Salt, Drought,
and Other Environmental Stress Conditions
Chapter 33 Abiotic Stress Impact and Tolerance of Natural Sweetener Plant Stevia
[Rout Nutan Prasad, Rodríguez-Garay Benjamín, Barranco-Guzmán Angel Martín, Gómez-Entzin
Veronica, and Rincón-Hernández Manuel]
Chapter 34 Responses of Green Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) in Terms of Dry Matter Production,
Nitrogen Uptake, and Water Absorption under Salt Stress Conditions
[Mohammad Pessarakli]
Chapter 35 Growth Responses of Pepper Plant (Capsicum annuum L.) in Terms of Biomass Production and
Water Uptake under Deficit Irrigation System, Mild Water Stress Conditions
[Sara Mardani, Mohammad Pessarakli, and Rachel McDaniel]
Chapter 36 Effects of Salinity Stress on Tomato Plants and the Possibility of Its Mitigation
[Maryam Mozafarian Meimandi, Noémi Kappel, and Mohammad Pessarakli]
Chapter 37 Water Stress Effects on Growth and Physiology of Corn
[M. Anowarul Islam and Abdelaziz Nilahyane]
Chapter 38 Moisture Stress and Its Effects on Forage Production Systems
[M. Anowarul Islam and Albert T. Adjesiwor]
Chapter 39 Responses of Medicinal Plants to Abiotic Stresses
[Masarovičová Elena, Kráľová Katarína, Vykouková Ivana, and Zuzana Kriššáková]
Chapter 40 Citrus Plant Botanic Characteristics and Its Abiotic and Biotic Stress
[Hong Li]
Section IX Future Promises: Improving Plant and Crop Adaptation/Tolerance and Cultivation under Stressful Conditions
Chapter 41 Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stresses Through Seed Invigoration
[M. Farooq, A. Wahid, S.M.A. Basra, Abdul Rehman, and Kadambot H.M. Siddique]
Chapter 42 Drought Resistance of Tropical Forage Grasses: Opening a Fertile Ground for Innovative Research
[Juan Andrés Cardoso and Idupulapati M. Rao]
Chapter 43 Drought Resistance of Common Bean Water Spending and Water: Saving Plant Ideotypes
[Jose A. Polania and Idupulapati M. Rao]
Chapter 44 Moringa and Tamarind: Potential Drought-Tolerant Perennial Crops
[Satya S.S. Narina, Christopher Catanzaro, and Anwar H. Gilani]
Chapter 45 Relationship of Medicinal Plants and Environmental Stresses: Advantages and Disadvantages
[Amir Hossein Saeidnejad]
Chapter 46 The Role of Beneficial Elements in Mitigation of Plant Osmotic Stress
[Maryam Mozafariyan Meimandi, Noémi Kappel, and Mohammad Pessarakli]
Chapter 47 The Role of Grafting Vegetable Crops for Reducing Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
[Maryam Mozafarian Meimandi and Noémi Kappel]
Chapter 48 Why Root Morphology is Expected to Be a Key Factor for Crop Salt Tolerance
[Uwe Schleiff]
Chapter 49 Improving Plant Yield and Quality under Normal and Stressful Conditions by Modifying the
Interactive Signaling and Metabolic Pathways and Metabolic Interaction Networks
[Omid Askari-Khorasgani and Mohammad Pessarakli]
Section X Beneficial Aspects of Stress on Plants/Crops
Chapter 50 Beneficial Effects of Various Environmental Stresses on Vegetables and Medicinal Plants for the
Production of High Value-Added Plants
[Satoru Tsukagoshi and Wataru Yamori]