8
Orchestration of MicroRNAs and Transcription Factors in the
Regulation of Plant Abiotic Stress Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Sombir Rao, Sonia Balyan, Sarita Jha, Chandni Bansal,
Jaishri Rubina Das, Apoorva Gupta, and Saloni Mathur
9
Phytohormones: A Promising Alternative in Boosting Salinity
Stress Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Ayushi Mahajan, Meenakshi Raina, Sameena Ejaz Tanwir,
Neha Katru, Akanksha Sharma, and Deepak Kumar
10 Microbe-Mediated Biotic Stress Signaling and Resistance
Mechanisms in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Lebin Thomas and Ishwar Singh
11 Role of WRKY Transcription Factor Superfamily
in Plant Disease Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Laxman Singh Rajput, Sumit Kumar Aggarwal, Sahil Mehta,
Sanjeev Kumar, Vennampally Nataraj, M. Shivakumar,
Hemant Singh Maheshwari, Sanjay Yadav, and Divyanshu Goswami
12 Unraveling the Molecular Mechanism of Magnaporthe oryzae
Induced Signaling Cascade in Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Nisha Khatri, Qingfeng Meng, Sun Tae Kim, and Ravi Gupta
13 The Role of Endophytic Insect-Pathogenic Fungi in Biotic Stress
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Imtiaz Ahmad, María del Mar Jiménez-Gasco,
and Mary E. Barbercheck
14 Biological Overview and Adaptability Strategies of Tamarix
Plants, T. articulata and T. gallica to Abiotic Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Karima Bencherif, Fares Trodi, Mohamed Hamidi, Yolande Dalpè,
and Anissa Lounès Hadj-Sahraoui
15 Plant Synthetic Biology: A Paradigm Shift Targeting Stress
Mitigation, Reduction of Ecological Footprints and Sustainable
Transformation in Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Priyanka Singla
16 Role of Calcium Signalling During Plant–Herbivore Interaction . . . 491
Amit Kumar, Ruby Panwar, Archana Singh,
and Indrakant Kumar Singh
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Orchestration of MicroRNAs and Transcription Factors in the
Regulation of Plant Abiotic Stress Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Sombir Rao, Sonia Balyan, Sarita Jha, Chandni Bansal,
Jaishri Rubina Das, Apoorva Gupta, and Saloni Mathur
9
Phytohormones: A Promising Alternative in Boosting Salinity
Stress Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Ayushi Mahajan, Meenakshi Raina, Sameena Ejaz Tanwir,
Neha Katru, Akanksha Sharma, and Deepak Kumar
10 Microbe-Mediated Biotic Stress Signaling and Resistance
Mechanisms in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Lebin Thomas and Ishwar Singh
11 Role of WRKY Transcription Factor Superfamily
in Plant Disease Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Laxman Singh Rajput, Sumit Kumar Aggarwal, Sahil Mehta,
Sanjeev Kumar, Vennampally Nataraj, M. Shivakumar,
Hemant Singh Maheshwari, Sanjay Yadav, and Divyanshu Goswami
12 Unraveling the Molecular Mechanism of Magnaporthe oryzae
Induced Signaling Cascade in Rice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Nisha Khatri, Qingfeng Meng, Sun Tae Kim, and Ravi Gupta
13 The Role of Endophytic Insect-Pathogenic Fungi in Biotic Stress
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Imtiaz Ahmad, María del Mar Jiménez-Gasco,
and Mary E. Barbercheck
14 Biological Overview and Adaptability Strategies of Tamarix
Plants, T. articulata and T. gallica to Abiotic Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
Karima Bencherif, Fares Trodi, Mohamed Hamidi, Yolande Dalpè,
and Anissa Lounès Hadj-Sahraoui
15 Plant Synthetic Biology: A Paradigm Shift Targeting Stress
Mitigation, Reduction of Ecological Footprints and Sustainable
Transformation in Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435
Priyanka Singla
16 Role of Calcium Signalling During Plant–Herbivore Interaction . . . 491
Amit Kumar, Ruby Panwar, Archana Singh,
and Indrakant Kumar Singh
x
Contents