Climate Change and Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance

PART I: CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate Change: Challenges for Future Crop Adjustments (Jerry L. Hatfield)
Developing Robust Crop Plants for Sustaining Growth and Yield under Adverse Climatic Changes (Autar Mattoo, Vijaya Shukla)
Climate Change and Abiotic Stress Management in India (R.B. Singh)
PART2: ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Plant Environmental Stress Responses for Survival and Biomass Enhancement (Yuriko Osakabe, Keishi Osakabe, Kazuo Shinozaki)
Heat Stress and Roots (Scott Heckathorn, Anju Giri, Sasmita Mishra, Deepesh Bista)
The Role of Nitrosative Signaling in Response to Changing Climates (Panagiota Filippou, Chrystalla Antoniou, Vasileios Fotopoulos)
Current Concepts about Salinity and Salinity Tolerance in Plants (Askim Hediye Sekmen, Melike Bor, Filiz Ozdemir, Ismail Turka)
Salinity Tolerance of Avicennia officinalis L. (Acanthaceae) from Gujarat Coasts of India (Ashish Dahyabhai, Patel Kishor, Lalcheta Sarvajeet, Singh Gill, Narendra Tuteja)
Drought Stress Responses in Plants, Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense (Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Ritu Gill, Masayuki Fujita)
Plant Adaptation to Abiotic and Genotoxic Stress: Relevance to Climate Change and Evolution (Brahma B. Panda, V. Mohan M. Achary, Srikrishna Mahanty, Kamal K. Panda)
UV-B Perception in Plant Roots (Ken Yokawa, Frantisek Baluska)
Improving the Plant Root System Architecture to Combat Abiotic Stresses Incurred by Global Climate Changes (Ananda K. Sarkar , Karthikeyan Mayandi, Vibhav Gautam, Suvakanta Barik, Shabari Sarkar Das)
Activation of the Jasmonate Biosynthetic Pathway in Roots in Drought Stress (Palmiro Poltronieri, Marco Taurino, Stefania De Domenico, Stefania Bonsegna, Angelo Santino)
PART3: APPROACHES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
Can Carbon in Bioenergy Crops Mitigate Global Climate Change? (Abdullah A. Jaradat)
Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies of Plant under Drought and High Temperature Stress (P. Ratnakumar, S. K.

An elected fellow of numerous academies, Narendra Tuteja is currently a senior scientist at ICGEB, New Delhi, India. He has made significant contributions to crop improvement under adverse conditions, reporting the first helicase from plant and human cells and demonstrating new roles of Ku autoantigen, nucleolin and eIF4A as DNA helicases. Furthermore, he discovered novel functions of helicases, G-proteins, CBL-CIPK and LecRLK in plant stress tolerance, and PLC and MAP-kinase as effectors for G proteins. Narendra Tuteja also reported several high salinity stress tolerant genes from plants and fungi and developed salt/drought tolerant plants.
 
Currently assistant professor at MD University, Rohtak, India, Sarvajeet Singh Gill has made significant contributions to abiotic stress tolerance. Together with Narendra Tuteja he worked on plant helicases and discovered a novel function of plant MCM6 in salinity stress tolerance that will help improve crop production at sub-optimal conditions. A recipient of the Junior Scientist of the Year Award 2008 from the National Environmental Science Academy, Sarvajeet Gill has edited several books and has a number of research papers, review articles, and book chapters to his name.