Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Research, Development, Commercialization, and Adoption of Drought and Stress-Tolerant Crops / Gregory Graff, Gal Hochman, David Zilberman -- Impact of Extreme Events on Salt-Tolerant Forest Species of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India) / Alok Saxena M.Sc., MBA, Ph.D., P. Ragavan -- Greenhouse Gases Emission from Rice Paddy Ecosystem and their Management / T. B. Dakua, L. Rangan, Sudip Mitra -- Remote Sensing Applications to Infer Yield of Tea in a Part of Sri Lanka / Saumitra Mukherjee, Jayasekara Balasuriya -- Polyamines Contribution to the Improvement of Crop Plants Tolerance to Abiotic Stress / Ana Bernardina Menéndez -- Overlapping Horizons of Salicylic Acid under Different Stresses / Mohd Irfan, Shamsul Hayat Ph.D. -- Genotoxic Stress, DNA Repair, and Crop Productivity / Alma Balestrazzi, Anca Macovei, Mattia Donà -- In Vitro Haploid Production--A Fast and Reliable Approach for Crop Improvement / Rashmi Rekha Hazarika, Vijay Kumar Mishra -- Production of Abiotic Stress Tolerant Fertile Transgenic Plants using Androgenesis and Genetic Transformation Methods in Cereal Crops / S. M. Shahinul Islam, Narendra Tuteja -- Plant Diseases--Control and Remedy Through Nanotechnology / Remya Nair, D. Sakthi Kumar -- Nanobiotechnology: Scope and Potential for Crop Improvement / Faheem Ahmed, Nishat Arshi, Shalendra Kumar -- Role of Nematode-Trapping Fungi for Crop Improvement under Adverse Conditions / Rakesh Kumar Singh, Dipesh Kumar Trivedi -- Sugars as Antioxidants in Plants / Wim Van den Ende, Darin Peshev -- Chromium Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants / A. Ahmad, I. Khan, H. Diwan -- Boron Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants / Robert J Reid -- Arsenic Toxicity in Crop Plants: Approaches for Stress Resistance / Alok Krishna Sinha -- Mechanism of Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants / Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Naser Aziz Anjum.