Abiotic Stress Adaptation in Plants

1. Stress Perception and Signal Transduction

1. Abiotic Tolerance and Crop Improvement
Subrahmaniam Nagarajan, Shantha Nagarajan

2. Sensors and Signal Transducers of Environmental Stress in Cyanobacteria
Yu Kanesaki, Dmitry. A. Los, Iwane Suzuki, Norio Murata

3. Stress Signaling I: The Role of Abscisic Acid (ABA)
Christopher D. Rock, Yoichi Sakata, Ralph S. Quatrano

4. Stress Signaling II: Calcium Sensing and Signaling
Marie Boudsocq, Jen Sheen

5. Stress Signaling III: Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS)
Mikael Brosché, Kirk Overmyer, Michael Wrzaczek, Jaakko Kangasjärvi, Saijaliisa Kangasjärvi

6. A Biotic or Abiotic Stress?
Alexandre Robert-Seilaniantz, Rajendra Bari, Jonathan D. G. Jones

7. Protein Kinases and Phosphatases for Stress Signal Transduction in Plants
Lee Chae, Girdhar K Pandey, Sheng Luan, Yong Hwa Cheong, Kyung-Nam Kim

8. Nitrogen Source Influences Root to Shoot Signaling Under Drought
Jason Q. D. Goodger, Daniel P. Schachtman

2. Stress Regulation of Gene Expression

9. Abiotic Stress Responses: Complexities in Gene Expression
Vaishali Panjabi-Sabharwal, Ratna Karan, Tanveer Khan, Ashwani Pareek

10. Promoters and Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress-Responsive Gene Expression
Kazuo Nakashima, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki

11. Epigenetic Regulation: Chromatin Modeling and Small RNAs
Viswanathan Chinnusamy, Jian-Kang Zhu

3. Physiology and Metabolism

12. Ion Homeostasis
Anna Amtmann, Roger Leigh

13. Glutathione Homeostasis: Crucial for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
Bhumesh Kumar, Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek, Sudhir K. Sopory

14. Water Balance and the Regulation of Stomatal Movements
Christophe Belin, Sébastien Thomine, Julian I. Schroeder

15. Responses to Macronutrient Deprivation
Arthur R. Grossman, David Gonzalez-Ballester, Nakako Shibagaki, Wirulda Pootakham, Jeffrey Moseley

16. Osmolyte Regulation in Abiotic Stress
Arun Lahiri Majumder, Sonali Sengupta, Lily Goswami

17. Programmed Cell Death in Plants
Avijit Das, Maki Kawai-Yamada, Hirofumi Uchimiya

4. Overcoming Stress

18. Varietal Improvement for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants: Special Reference to Salinity in Rice
Rakesh Kumar Singh, Edilberto Redoña, Luzminda Refuerzo

19. Transgenic Approaches
Anil K. Singh, Sudhir K. Sopory, Ray Wu, Sneh L. Singla-Pareek

20. Marker Assisted Breeding
Michael J. Thomson, Abdelbagi M. Ismail, Susan R. McCouch, David J. Mackill

21. Stress, Mutators, Mutations and Stress Resistance
Jonathan Gressel, Avraham A. Levy

22. Systems Biology of Abiotic Stress: The Elephant and the Blind Men
Nina V. Fedoroff

23. Global Climate Change, Stress and Plant Productivity
Altaf Ahmad, Hema Diwan, Yash P. Abrol

Avainsanat: Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Agriculture