Table of Contents
List of contributors
About the Editor
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: Drought stress and photosynthesis in plants
Chapter 2: The Role of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Induction in Plants Adaptation to Water Deficit
Chapter 3: Stomatal Responses to Drought Stress
Chapter 4: Recurrent droughts: keys for sustainable water management from case studies of tree fruit orchards in central Chile
Chapter 5: Global explicit profiling of water deficit-induced diminutions in agricultural crop sustainability: a key emerging trends and challenges
Chapter 6: Sustainable Agricultural Practices for Water Quality Protection
Chapter 7: Salinity and Drought Stress: Similarities and Differences in Oxidative Responses and Cellular Redox regulation
Chapter 8: Oxidative stress and plant responses to pathogens under drought conditions
Chapter 9: Potential Usage of Antioxidants, Hormones and Plant Extracts: An Innovative Approach in Taming Water Stress Limitation in Crop Plants
Chapter 10: Water stress in plants: From gene to biotechnology
Chapter 11: Plant Aquaporin Biotechnology: Challenges and Prospects for abiotic stress tolerance under changing global environment
Chapter 12: Role of proteins in alleviating drought stress in plants
Chapter 13: Avenues for improving drought tolerance in crops by ABA regulation: Molecular and physiological basis
Chapter 14: MYB transcription factors for enhanced drought tolerance in plants
Chapter 15: Analysis of novel haplotype variations at TaDREB-D1 and TaCwi-D1 genes influencing drought tolerance in bread/synthetic wheat derivatives: An Overview
Chapter 16: Towards integration of system based approach for understanding drought stress in plants
Chapter 17: MiRNA/siRNA-based approaches to enhance drought tolerance of barley and wheat under drought stress
Chapter 18: MicroRNAs and Their Role in Drought Stress Response in Plants
Chapter 19: Sugar Signaling in Plants: A Novel Mechanism to Drought Stress Management
Chapter 20: Agricultural, socio-economic, and cultural relevance of crop wild relatives, in particular food legume landraces, in Northern Africa