In this ready reference, a global team of experts comprehensively cover molecular and cell biology-based approaches to the impact of increasing global temperatures on crop productivity.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate Change: Challenges for Future Crop Adjustments / Jerry L Hatfield -- Developing Robust Crop Plants for Sustaining Growth and Yield Under Adverse Climatic Changes / Vijaya Shukla, Autar K Mattoo -- Climate Change and Abiotic Stress Management in India / RB Singh -- 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 A Heckathorn, Anju Giri, Sasmita Mishra, Deepesh Bista -- Role of Nitrosative Signaling in Response to Changing Climates / Panagiota Filippou, Chrystalla Antoniou, Vasileios Fotopoulos -- Current Concepts about Salinity and Salinity Tolerance in Plants / Askım Hediye Sekmen, Melike Bor, Filiz Ozdemir, Ismail Turkan -- Salinity Tolerance of (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, 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, František Baluška -- Improving the Plant Root System Architecture to Combat Abiotic Stresses Incurred as a Result of Global Climate Changes / Ananda K Sarkar, Karthikeyan Mayandi, Vibhav Gautam, Suvakanta Barik, Shabari Sarkar Das -- Activation of the Jasmonate Biosynthesis Pathway in Roots in Drought Stress / Palmiro Poltronieri, Marco Taurino, Stefania De Domenico, Stefania Bonsegna, Angelo Santino -- 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 / Pasala Ratna Kumar, Susheel Kumar Raina, Satish Kumar, Kiran P Bhagat, Yogeshwar Singh, Santanu Kumar Bal -- Emerging Strategies to Face Challenges Imposed by Climate Change and Abiotic Stresses in Wheat / Bharti Garg, Shreelekha Misra, Narendra Tuteja -- Protein Structure-Function Paradigm in Plant Stress Tolerance / Harshesh Bhatt, Anil Kumar, Neel Sarovar Bhavesh -- Abiotic Stress-Responsive Small RNA-Mediated Plant Improvement Under a Changing Climate / Basel Khraiwesh, Enas Qudeimat -- Impact of Climate Change on MicroRNA Expression in Plants / Vallabhi Ghorecha, NSR Krishnayya, Ramanjulu Sunkar -- Role of Abscisic Acid Signaling in Drought Tolerance and Preharvest Sprouting Under Climate Change / Yasunari Fujita, Kazuo Nakashima, Takuya Yoshida, Miki Fujita, Kazuo Shinozaki, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki -- Regulatory Role of Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants / Dumbala Srinivas Reddy, Pooja Bhatnagar Mathur, KK Sharma -- Transcription Factors: Modulating Plant Adaption in the Scenario of Changing Climate / Swati Puranik, Manoj Prasad -- Role of Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants / Neelam R Yadav, Jyoti Taunk, Asha Rani, Bharti Aneja, Ram C Yadav -- Coping with Drought and Salinity Stresses: Role of Transcription Factors in Crop Improvement / Karina F Ribichich, Agustín L Arce, Raquel Lía Chan -- Role of Na/H Antiporters in Na Homeostasis in Halophytic Plants / Pradeep K Agarwal, Narendra Singh Yadav, Bhavanath Jha -- Role of Plant Metabolites in Abiotic Stress Tolerance Under Changing Climatic Conditions with Special Reference to Secondary Compounds / Akula Ramakrishna, GA Ravishankar -- Metabolome Analyses for Understanding Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants to Evolve Management Strategies / Usha Chakraborty, Bhumika Pradhan, Rohini Lama -- Metabolomic Approaches for Improving Crops Under Adverse Conditions / Prabodh Kumar Trivedi, Nehal Akhtar, Parul Gupta, Pravendra Nath -- Improvement of Cereal Crops through Androgenesis and Transgenic Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance to Mitigate the Challenges of Climate Change in Sustainable Agriculture / SM Shahinul Islam, Israt Ara, Narendra Tuteja -- Bioprospection of Weed Species for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants Under a Climate Change Scenario: Finding the Gold Buried within Weed Species / Meenal Rathore, Raghwendra Singh, Bhumesh Kumar -- Crop Improvement Under Climate Change. Climate Change and Heat Stress Tolerance in Chickpea / Pooran M Gaur, Aravind K Jukanti, Srinivasan Samineni, Sushil K Chaturvedi, Partha S Basu, Anita Babbar, Veera Jayalakshmi, Harsh Nayyar, Viola Devasirvatham, Nalini Mallikarjuna, Laxmanan Krishnamurthy, CL Laxmipathi Gowda -- Micropropagation of for Improvement and Enhanced Productivity / Narpat S Shekhawat, Mangal S Rathore, Smita Shekhawat, Sumitra K Choudhary, Mahendra Phulwaria, Harish, Manoj K Rai, JB Vibha, Nitika S Rathore, AK Patel, Vinod Kataria -- Climate Change and Organic Carbon Storage in Bangladesh Forests / Mohammed Alamgir, Stephen M Turton -- Divergent Strategies to Cope with Climate Change in Himalayan Plants / Sanjay Kumar -- Culture of Plants from Arid Environments / Harchand R Dagla, Shari Nair, Deepak K Vyas, Juleri M Upendra -- Salicylic Acid: A Novel Plant Growth Regulator-Role in Physiological Processes and Abiotic Stresses Under Changing Environments / Pushp Sharma -- Phosphorus Starvation Response in Plants and Opportunities for Crop Improvement / Bipin K Pandey, Poonam Mehra, Jitender Giri -- Bacterial Endophytes and their Significance in the Sustainable Production of Food in Non-Legumes / Aparna Raturi, Prasad Gyaneshwar, Sunil K Singh, Nisha Tak, Hukam S Gehlot -- Endophytic Fungi for Stress Tolerance / Nutan Kaushik, Vikram Kumar -- Polyamines and their Role in Plant Osmotic Stress Tolerance / Kamala Gupta, Abhijit Dey, Bhaskar Gupta.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Wiley, viewed Dec. 4, 2013).

Text in English.