Priming and Pretreatment of Seeds and Seedlings: Implication in Plant Stress Tolerance and Enhancing Productivity in Crop Plants

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
 Methods of Seed Priming  (Ahmad Sher, Taskeen Sarwar, Ahmad Nawaz, Muhammad Ijaz, Abdul Sattar, Shakeel Ahmad)....Pages 1-10
 Advances in the Concept and Methods of Seed Priming  (Muhammad Waqas, Nicholas Emmanuel Korres, Muhammad Daud Khan, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Farah Deeba, Iftikhar Ali et al.)....Pages 11-41
 Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Aspects of Seed Priming  (Sadam Hussain, Saddam Hussain, Abdul Khaliq, Shafaqat Ali, Imran Khan)....Pages 43-62
 Fundamental Processes Involved in Seed Priming  (Ehab Awad-Allah Ibrahim)....Pages 63-115
 Seedling Pretreatment: Methods and Protocols  (Abdul Rehman, Komal Mazhar, Muhammad Ijaz, Qasim Ali, Shakeel Ahmad)....Pages 117-134
 Effect of Seed Priming on Seed Dormancy and Vigor  (Muhammad Junaid Rao, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Akbar Anjum, Muhammad Saqib, Riaz Ahmad, Muhammad Fasih Khalid et al.)....Pages 135-145
 Alterations in Plant Secondary Metabolism by Seed Priming  (Qasim Ali, Sana Ashraf, Muhammad Kamran, Abdul Rehman, Shakeel Ahmad)....Pages 147-161
 Seed Priming-Induced Early Vigor in Crops: An Alternate Strategy for Abiotic Stress Tolerance  (Meenakshi Thakur, Poornima Sharma, Anjali Anand)....Pages 163-180
 Seed Priming Alleviates Stress Tolerance in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)  (R. K. Sarkar, A. K. Mukherjee, K. Chakraborty)....Pages 181-204
 Seed Priming-Mediated Improvement of Plant Morphophysiology Under Salt Stress  (Abdul Rehman, Babar Shahzad, Aman Ullah, Faisal Nadeem, Mohsin Tanveer, Anket Sharma et al.)....Pages 205-217
 Mechanisms of Seed Priming Involved in Salt Stress Amelioration  (Magdi T. Abdelhamid, Raafat R. El-Masry, Darwish S. Darwish, Mazhar M. F. Abdalla, Shinya Oba, Ragab Ragab et al.)....Pages 219-251
 Seed Priming and Seedling Pre-treatment Induced Tolerance to Drought and Salt Stress: Recent Advances  (Smita Sahoo, Pankaj Borgohain, Bedabrata Saha, Debojyoti Moulick, Bhaben Tanti, Sanjib Kumar Panda)....Pages 253-263
 Seed Priming Toward Enhanced Chilling Tolerance in Field Crops: An Overview  (Hafiz Athar Hussain, Sadam Hussain, Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Saddam Hussain)....Pages 265-286
 Seed Priming and Metal/Metalloid Stress Tolerance in Plants  (Abdul Saboor, Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammad Arshad, Muhammad Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain, Niaz Ahmed et al.)....Pages 287-311
 Advances in Heavy Metal-Induced Stress Alleviation with Respect to Exogenous Amendments in Crop Plants  (Bedabrata Saha, Bhaben Chowardhara, Saradia Kar, Sanjenbam Sanjibia Devi, Jay Prakash Awasthi, Debojyoti Moulick et al.)....Pages 313-332
 Seed Priming for Disease Resistance in Plants  (Ghulam Mustafa, Sajid Masood, Niaz Ahmed, Abdul Saboor, Shakeel Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain et al.)....Pages 333-362
 Seed Pretreatment as a Means to Achieve Pathogen Control  (Muhammad Taimoor Shakeel, Rashida Parveen, Idrees Haider, Muhammad Arshad, Shakeel Ahmad, Niaz Ahmad et al.)....Pages 363-371
 Hydropriming for Plant Growth and Stress Tolerance  (Muhammad Fasih Khalid, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Akbar Anjum, Shaghef Ejaz, Maqsood Ahmad, Mehwish Jan et al.)....Pages 373-384
 Chemical Priming for Multiple Stress Tolerance  (Muhammad Arslan Ashraf, Rizwan Rasheed, Iqbal Hussain, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Saleem Arif)....Pages 385-415
 Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants by Priming and Pretreatment with Hydrogen Peroxide  (Aditya Banerjee, Aryadeep Roychoudhury)....Pages 417-426
 Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants Through Pre-sowing Seed Treatments with Mineral Elements and Growth Regulators  (Aman Ullah, Babar Shahzad, Mohsin Tanveer, Faisal Nadeem, Anket Sharma, Dong Jin Lee et al.)....Pages 427-445
 Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants by Priming and Pretreatments with Phytohormones  (Muhammad Sarfraz, Sajid Hussain, Muhammad Ijaz, Ahmad Nawaz, Tauqeer Ahmad Yasir, Ahmad Sher et al.)....Pages 447-457
 Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants by Priming and Pretreatments with Ascorbic Acid  (Sajid Ali, Aamir Nawaz, Sajjad Hussain, Samiya Mahmood Khan, Shaghef Ejaz, Shakeel Ahmad)....Pages 459-493
 An Assessment of Efficiency of Zinc Priming in Rice (cv. MTU-7029) During Germination and Early Seedling Growth  (Debojyoti Moulick, Subhas Chandra Santra, Dibakar Ghosh, Sanjib Kumar Panda)....Pages 495-507
 Application of Endophytes Through Seed Priming  (Ahmad Mahmood, Ryota Kataoka)....Pages 509-521
 Microbial Inoculation of Seeds for Better Plant Growth and Productivity  (Muhammad Arif Ali, Fariha Ilyas, Muhammad Arshad, Sajjad Hussain, Mazhar Iqbal, Shakeel Ahmad et al.)....Pages 523-550
 Role of Seed Priming and Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in Modulating Crops’ Responses to Salinity Stress  (Abdul Majeed, Zahir Muhammad, Rehmanullah)....Pages 551-572
 Pretreatment of Seedlings with Exogenous Protectants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance  (Shaghef Ejaz, Muhammad Akbar Anjum, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Azam, Sajid Ali, Shakeel Ahmad)....Pages 573-593
 Improving Antioxidant Defense in Plants Through Seed Priming and Seedling Pretreatment  (Idrees Haider, Muhammad Akmal, Muhammad Taimoor Shakeel, Shakeel Ahmad, Niaz Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain et al.)....Pages 595-604