Contents
1
Abiotic Stress in Plants: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Pooja Baweja and Gaurav Kumar
2
Silicon: A Plant Nutritional “Non-Entity” for Mitigating Abiotic
Stresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Sahil Mehta, Mansi Gogna, Baljinder Singh, Anupam Patra,
Indrakant Kumar Singh, and Archana Singh
3
Plant Morphological, Physiological Traits Associated with
Adaptation Against Heat Stress in Wheat and Maize . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Rahul Gajghate, Dipanti Chourasiya, Harikrishna,
and Ram Kumar Sharma
4
Breeding and Molecular Approaches for Evolving
Drought-Tolerant Soybeans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Gyanesh Kumar Satpute, Milind B. Ratnaparkhe, Subhash Chandra,
Viraj Gangadhar Kamble, Rucha Kavishwar, Ajay Kumar Singh,
Sanjay Gupta, Ramgopal Devdas, Mamta Arya, Maharaj Singh,
Mahaveer Prasad Sharma, Giriraj Kumawat, M. Shivakumar,
Vennampally Nataraj, Mrinal K. Kuchlan, Vangala Rajesh,
Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Annapurna Chitikineni,
Rajeev K. Varshney, and Henry T. Nguyen
5
Plant Roots and Mineral Nutrition: An Overview of Molecular
Basis of Uptake and Regulation, and Strategies to Improve
Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Ekta Bhardwaj, Richa Shukla, and Sandip Das
6
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: Mechanisms
and Alleviation of Cold Stress in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Shekhar Chand Bisht, B. M. Pandey,
V. S. Meena, M. Parihar, D. Mahanta, J. K. Bisht, and A. Pattanayak
7
Microbe-Mediated Mitigation of Abiotic Stress in Plants . . . . . . . . . 227
Maddur Puttaswamy Raghavendra
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1
Abiotic Stress in Plants: An Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1
Pooja Baweja and Gaurav Kumar
2
Silicon: A Plant Nutritional “Non-Entity” for Mitigating Abiotic
Stresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Sahil Mehta, Mansi Gogna, Baljinder Singh, Anupam Patra,
Indrakant Kumar Singh, and Archana Singh
3
Plant Morphological, Physiological Traits Associated with
Adaptation Against Heat Stress in Wheat and Maize . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Rahul Gajghate, Dipanti Chourasiya, Harikrishna,
and Ram Kumar Sharma
4
Breeding and Molecular Approaches for Evolving
Drought-Tolerant Soybeans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Gyanesh Kumar Satpute, Milind B. Ratnaparkhe, Subhash Chandra,
Viraj Gangadhar Kamble, Rucha Kavishwar, Ajay Kumar Singh,
Sanjay Gupta, Ramgopal Devdas, Mamta Arya, Maharaj Singh,
Mahaveer Prasad Sharma, Giriraj Kumawat, M. Shivakumar,
Vennampally Nataraj, Mrinal K. Kuchlan, Vangala Rajesh,
Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Annapurna Chitikineni,
Rajeev K. Varshney, and Henry T. Nguyen
5
Plant Roots and Mineral Nutrition: An Overview of Molecular
Basis of Uptake and Regulation, and Strategies to Improve
Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Ekta Bhardwaj, Richa Shukla, and Sandip Das
6
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: Mechanisms
and Alleviation of Cold Stress in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Shekhar Chand Bisht, B. M. Pandey,
V. S. Meena, M. Parihar, D. Mahanta, J. K. Bisht, and A. Pattanayak
7
Microbe-Mediated Mitigation of Abiotic Stress in Plants . . . . . . . . . 227
Maddur Puttaswamy Raghavendra
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