1 Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: Present and Future ....... 1
Nitin Mantri, Vikas Patade, Suprasanna Penna, Rebecca Ford,
and Edwin Pang
2 Abiotic Stress-Induced Morphological and Anatomical Changes
in Plants ................................................... 21
Angelos Patakas
3 Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: Metabolism to
Productivity ................................................ 41
Andrea Furtado Macedo
4 Approaches to Increasing Salt Tolerance in Crop Plants ...... 63
Ratna Karan and Prasanta K. Subudhi
5 Understanding and Exploiting the Impact of Drought Stress
on Plant Physiology ......................................... 89
Olga M. Grant
6 Sustainable Fruit Production in Mediterranean Orchards
Subjected to Drought Stress ................................ 105
Adriano Sofo, Assunta Maria Palese, Teresa Casacchia,
Bartolomeo Dichio, and Cristos Xiloyannis
7 Drought Stress Induced Reactive Oxygen Species and
Anti-oxidants in Plants .................................... 131
S.M. Impa, S. Nadaradjan, and S.V.K. Jagadish
8 Role of Glutathione Reductase in Plant Abiotic Stress ...... 149
Peerzada Yasir Yousuf, Khalid Ul Rehman Hakeem, Ruby
Chandna, and Parvaiz Ahmad
9 Flavonoids as Antioxidants in Plants Under Abiotic
Stresses ................................................... 159
Martina Di Ferdinande Cecilia Brunetti, Alessio Fini, and
Massimiliano Tattini
10 Proteomic Markers for Oxidative Stress: New Tools for
Reactive Oxygen Species and Photosynthesis Research ........ 181
Ruby Chandna, Khalid Ul Rehman Hakeem, and Parvaiz Ahmad
11 Environmental Stress and Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Symbiosis .................................................. 197
Anna Fusconi and Grazieila Berta
12 Effects of Exogenous Application of 5-Aminolevulinic Acid
in Crop Plants ............................................. 215
Ahmet Korkmaz
13 Abiotic Stress and Role of Salicylic Acid in Plants ........ 235
Miyuki Hara, Jun Furukawa, Aiko Sato, Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi,
and Kenji Miura
14 Trehalose and Abiotic Stress Tolerance ..................... 253
Miguel López-Gómez and Carmen Lluch
15 Uptake of Minerai Elements During Abiotic Stress ........... 267
Fatih Duman
16 Effect of Micronutrient Deficiencies on Plants Stress
Responses .................................................. 283
R. Hajiboland
17 Stress-Induced Flowering ................................... 331
Kiyotoshi Takeno
18 Postharvest Stress Treatments in Fruits and Vegetables ..... 347
Yoshihiro Imahori
19 Abscisic Acid Signaling in Plants .......................... 359
Radomira Vankova
20 Plant Tolerance and Fatty Acid Profile in Responses to
Heavy Metals ............................................... 369
Asiya Hameed, Tabasum N. Qadri, Mahmooduzzafar, and
Т.О. Siddiqi
21 Cd Accumulation and Subcellular Distribution in Plants
and Their Relevance to the Trophic Transfer of Cd .......... 387
M.S. Monteiro and A.M.V.M. Soares
22 The Role of Soil Organic Matter in Trace Element
Bioavailability and Toxicity ............................... 403
Gabrijel Ondrasek and Zed Rengel
23 Oxidative Stress and Phytoremediation ...................... 425
Kinga Drzewiecka, Mirosław Mleczek, Agnieszka Waśkiewicz,
and Piotr Goliński
24 Phytoremediation of Low Levels of Heavy Metals Using
Duckweed (Lemna minor) ..................................... 451
Lué-Meru Marcó Parra, Gosmyr Torres, Adolfo David Arenas,
Erick Sánchez, and Korina Rodríguez
Index ......................................................... 465
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