Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Fourth Edition (Paperback, 4 ed)

Section I Soil Salinity and Sodicity ProblemsChapter 1 Soil Salinity and Sodicity as Particular Plant/Crop Stress Factors [Mohammad Pessarakli and I. Szabolcs]Section II Plants/Crops Tolerance Mechanisms and Stressful ConditionsChapter 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 StressRecovery 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 Rodriguez-Garay Benjamin]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 [Klara Kosova, Ilja Tom Pra?il, and Pavel Vitamvas]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 [Klara Kosova, Milan Oldrich Urban, Pavel Vitamvas, and Ilja Tom Pra?il]Section III Plants and Crops Responses: Physiology, Cellular andMolecular Biology, Microbiological Aspects, and WholePlant Responses under Salt, Drought, Heat, ColdTemperature, Light, Nutrients, and Other Stressful ConditionsChapter 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. Podesta, 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 underPollution and Heavy Metal StressesChapter 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[Kralova Katarina, Masarovicova Elena, and Jampilek 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 StressChapter 27 How Crops Stress Weeds[Jack Dekker]Section VI Genetic Factors and Plant/Crop Genomics under Stress ConditionsChapter 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 andAdaptation[Omid Askari-Khorasgani and Mohammad Pessarakli]Section VII Plant/Crop Breeding under Stress ConditionsChapter 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 byRegulating Heat Shock Proteins, RNA Binding Proteins, and Chaperones[Omid Askari-Khorasgani and Mohammad Pessarakli]Section VIII Examples of Empirical Investigations of SpecificPlants and Crops Grown under Salt, Drought,and Other Environmental Stress ConditionsChapter 33 Abiotic Stress Impact and Tolerance of Natural Sweetener Plant Stevia[Rout Nutan Prasad, Rodriguez-Garay Benjamin, Barranco-Guzman Angel Martin, Gomez-EntzinVeronica, and Rincon-Hernandez 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 andWater 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, Noemi 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[Masarovicova Elena, Kralova Katarina, Vykoukova Ivana, and Zuzana Kri??akova]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 ConditionsChapter 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 Andres 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, Noemi Kappel, and Mohammad Pessarakli]Chapter 47 The Role of Grafting Vegetable Crops for Reducing Biotic and Abiotic Stresses[Maryam Mozafarian Meimandi and Noemi 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 theInteractive Signaling and Metabolic Pathways and Metabolic Interaction Networks[Omid Askari-Khorasgani and Mohammad Pessarakli]Section X Beneficial Aspects of Stress on Plants/CropsChapter 50 Beneficial Effects of Various Environmental Stresses on Vegetables and Medicinal Plants for theProduction of High Value-Added Plants[Satoru Tsukagoshi and Wataru Yamori]