Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1

1. Salinity stress responses and adaptive mechanisms in major glycophytic crops: The story so far BY Sunita Kataria and Sandeep Kumar Verma.- 2. Deploying mechanisms adapted by halophytes to improve salinity tolerance in crop plants: Focus on anatomical features, stomatal attributes and water use efficiency BY Ankanagari Srinivas, Guddimalli Rajasheker, Gandra Jawahar, Punita L. Devineni, Maheshwari Parveda, Somanaboina Anil Kumar and Polavarapu B. Kavi Kishor.- 3. Targeting aquaporins for conferring salinity tolerance in crops BY Kundan Kumar and Ankush Ashok Saddhe.- 4. Strategies to mitigate salt stress effects on photosynthetic apparatus and productivity of crop plants BY Mbarki Sonia, Oksana Sytar, Artemio Cerda, Marek  Zivcak, Anshu Rastogi, Xiaolan He, Aziza Zoghlami, Chedly Abdelly, Marian Brestic.- 5. Potassium uptake and homeostasis in plants grown under hostile environmental conditions and its regulation by CBL-interacting protein kinases BY Mohammad Alnayef, JayakumarBose, and Sergey Shabala.- 6. Plant hormones: potent targets for engineering salinity tolerance in plants BY Abdallah Atia, Zouhaier Barhoumi, Ahmed Debez, Safa Hkiri, Chedly Abdelly, Abderrazak Smaoui, Chiraz Chaffei Haouari, Houda Gouia.- 7. Transcription factors based genetic engineering for salinity tolerance in crops BY Parinita Agarwal, Pradeep Agarwal, Divya Gohil.- 8. Targeting the redox regulatory mechanisms for salinity stress tolerance in crop BY Mohsin Tanveer and Sergey Shabala.- 9. Manipulating metabolic pathways for development of salt tolerant crops BY Melike Bor and Filiz Özdemir.- 10. The glyoxalase system: a possible target to produce salinity tolerant crop plants BY Tahsina Sharmin Hoque, David J. Burritt, Mohammad Anwar Hossain.- 11. Cross-protection by oxidative stress: improving tolerance to abiotic stresses including salinity BY Vokkaliga T Harshavardhan, Geetha Govind, Rajesh Kalladan, Nese Sreenivasulu and Chwan-Yang Hong.- 12. Strategies to alleviate

Dr. Vinay Kumar is an Assistant Professor at the Post-graduate Department of Biotechnology, Progressive Education Society's Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganeshkhind, Pune, India and a Visiting Faculty at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Savitribai Phule University, Pune, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Savitribai Phule Pune University (Formerly University of Pune) in 2009. For his Ph.D., he worked on metabolic engineering of rice for improved salinity tolerance. He has published 30 peer reviewed research/ review articles and contributed 10 book chapters in edited books published by Springer, CRC Press and Elsevier. He is a recipient of Government of India's Science and Engineering Board, Department of Science and Technology (SERB-DST) Young Scientist Award in 2011. His current research interests include elucidating molecular mechanisms underlying salinity stress responses and tolerance in plants. His research group is engaged in assessing the individual roles and relative importance of sodium and chloride ions under salinity stress in rice and made significant contributions in elucidating the individual and additive effects of sodium and chloride ions.




Dr. Shabir H. Wani is an Assistant Professor cum Scientist at the Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He has published more than 100 papers/chapters in peer reviewed journals, and books of international and national repute. He is Review Editor of Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Switzerland. He is editor of SKUAST Journal of Research, and LS: An International journal of Life Sciences. He has also edited ten books on current topics in crop improvement published by CRC press, Taylor and Francis Group, USA and Springer. His Ph.D research fetched the first prize in North zone at national level competition in India.