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Chapter 1 Abiotic Stress in Plants: A General Outline |
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Chapter 2 Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Production, with Special Reference to Southeast Asia |
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Chapter 3 Plant Responses and Tolerance to Salt Stress |
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Chapter 4 Plant Responses and Tolerance to Drought |
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Chapter 5 Plants Signaling toward Drought Stress |
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Chapter 6 Variability in Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Mechanisms of Chickpea Varieties to Water Stress |
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Chapter 7 Plant Responses and Mechanisms of Tolerance to Cold Stress |
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Chapter 8 Unraveling the Molecular and Biochemical Mechanisms of Cold Stress Tolerance in Rice |
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Chapter 9 Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants and Its Mitigation |
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Chapter 10 Nutrient Deficiency and Toxicity Stress in Crop Plants: Lessons from Boron |
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Chapter 11 Plant Responses to Ozone Stress: Actions and Adaptations |
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Chapter 12 Hydrocarbon Contamination in Soil and Its Amelioration |
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Chapter 13 Abiotic Stress-Mediated Oxidative Damage in Plants: An Overview |
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Chapter 14 Plant Antioxidant Response During Abiotic Stress: Role of Transcription Factors |
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Nicolle Louise Ferreira Barros |
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Liliane de Souza Conceicao Tavares |
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Claudia Regina Batista de Souza |
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Chapter 15 Approaches to Enhance Antioxidant Defense in Plants |
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Chapter 16 Coordination and Auto-Propagation of ROS Signaling in Plants |
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Chapter 17 Regulation of Osmolytes Syntheses and Improvement of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
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Chapter 18 The Role of Plasma Membrane Proteins in Tolerance of Dehydration in the Plant Cell |
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Chapter 19 Trehalose Metabolism in Plants under Abiotic Stresses |
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Chapter 20 The Proline Metabolism of Durum Wheat Dehydrin Transgenic Context and Salt Tolerance Acquisition in Arabidopsis thaliana |
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Chapter 21 Nitric Oxide-Induced Tolerance in Plants under Adverse Environmental Conditions |
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Chapter 22 Molecular Mechanisms of Polyamines-Induced Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
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Chapter 23 Molecular Approaches for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
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Chapter 24 Genomic Approaches for Understanding Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
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Chapter 25 Hallmark Attributes of Plant Transcription Factors and Potentials of WRKY, MYB and NAC in Abiotic Stresses |
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Chapter 26 Application of CRISPR-Cas Genome Editing Tools for the Improvement of Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance |
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Chapter 27 Beneficial Microorganisms and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants |
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