CONTENTS:-
Section I: Nutriophysiology and Mineral Nutrient Stresses
1. Physiological and molecular appproaches to improve crop tolerance to mineral nutrient deficiency and heavy metal toxicity — Bhupinder Singh, Pratibha,Chandan Kumar Gupta, Sumedha Ahuja, Kalidindi Usha and Raghu Nath Pandey
2. Role of mineral nutrients in physiology, ripening and storability of fruits — Vijay Paul, Rakesh Pandey, Ramesh K.V. and Atar Singh
3. Phytonutrients in potato— R. Ezekiel
4. Nutrient stress induced oxidative damage in plants— Nalini Pandey
5. Change in global climatic pattern and the perils of grain yield loss and iron stress in rice plant— P K Mohapatra, E Kariali, B B Panda, A Das
Section II: Environmental Stresses: Molecular and Physiological Aspects
6. Environmental stresses and transgenics: role of Zfp (Zat) gene in multiple stress tolerance in plants— Avinash Chandra Rai, Major Singh and Kavita Shah
7. An overview on QTLs linked to physio-morphological traits under water-limited conditions in rice (Oryza sativa L.)— Beena R.
8. Crosstalk between genes in salicylic acid and jasmonic acid mediated signaling in plants exposed to environmental stresses— Indra Singh and Kavita Shah
9. Heat stress responses of wheat and other plants — A. Hemantaranjan, Pradeep Kumar Patel, Radha Singh and Abhishek Kumar Srivastava
10. Salinity stress response in plants: physiochemical and biotechnological approaches — Sananda Mondal and Bandana Bose
11. Reactive oxygen species: dual role in seed physiology— Giti Verma and Samir Sharma
Section III: Heavy Metal Stresses
12. Phytochelatins: natural chelating agents involved in plant protection — Enrique J. Baran
13. Metal toxicity, production of reactive oxygen species and their consequences in plants— Rajneesh Kumar Srivastava, Rama Shanker Dubey
14. Impact of heavy metal induced oxidative stress in plant system: Some aspects — M.K. Adak, C. Mandal, N. Ghosh and N. Dey
Section IV: Stress Control Measures and Phytoremediation
15. Biodrainage: a waterlogging and salinity control option — C. Rani, R. Angrish, O.P. Toky, K.S. Datta, V. Arora and S. Chawla
16. Postharvest changes in fresh commodities with special reference to nutraceuticals under abiotic stress conditions— P. Jeyakumar
17. Phytoremediation: tool for in situ risk reduction — Padmanabh Dwivedi and Prasann Kumar
Section V: Plant Growth Regulators
18. The journey of long-chain aliphatic alcohols since 1933: bioregulating properties of long-chain aliphatic alcohols - a review— Nisha Raghava and Ravindra Pratap Raghava
