Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1: Targeting Sensory, Transport and Signaling Mec

1. Salinity stress responses and adaptive mechanisms in major glycophytic crops: The story so far

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

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

Kundan Kumar and Ankush Ashok Saddhe

4. Strategies to mitigate salt stress effects on photosynthetic apparatus and productivity of crop plants

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

Mohammad Alnayef, Jayakumar Bose, and Sergey Shabala

6. Plant hormones: potent targets for engineering salinity tolerance in plants

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

Parinita Agarwal, Pradeep Agarwal, Divya Gohil

8. Targeting the redox regulatory mechanisms for salinity stress tolerance in crops

Mohsin Tanveer and Sergey Shabala

9. Manipulating metabolic pathways for development of salt tolerant crops

Melike Bor and Filiz Özdemir

10. The glyoxalase system: a possible target to produce salinity tolerant crop plants

Tahsina Sharmin Hoque, David J. Burritt, Mohammad Anwar Hossain

11. Cross-protection by oxidative stress: improving tolerance to abiotic stresses including salinity

Vokkaliga T Harshavardhan, Geetha Govind, Rajesh Kalladan, Nese Sreenivasulu and Chwan-Yang Hong

12. Strategies to alleviate salinity stress in plants

Sara Francisco Costa, Davide Martins, Monika Agacka-Moldoch, Anna Czubacka and Susana Sousa Araújo

13. Polyamines and their metabolic engineering for plant salinity stress tolerance

Tushar Khare, Amrita Srivastav, Samrin Shaikh and Vinay Kumar

14. Single versus multi-gene transfer approaches for crop salt tolerance

Satpal Turan

15. Molecular markers and their role in producing salinity tolerant crop plants

Sagar Satish Datir