Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress

Part 1 Soil salinity and sodicity problems: soils and salinization, I. Szabolcs; salinity in the soil environment, Lynn M. Dudley; influence of sodium on soils of humid regions, V.P. Evangelou. Part 2 Plants, crops, and stressful conditions: plants in saline environments, Alexandra Poljakoff-Mayber and H.R. Lerner; mechanisms involved in salt tolerance by plants, Benjamin Jacoby; general aspects of salinity and the biology of saline plants, David N. Sen and Sher Mohammed. Part 3 Plant and crop response to salt, water, and other environmental stress conditions: crop response and management on salt-affected soils, Leland E. Francois and Eugene V. Maas; crop response to salt stress - seawater application and prospects, E.R.R. Iyengar and M.P. Reddy; mineral nutrient acquisition and response by plants grown in saline environments, Stephen R. Grattan and Catherine M. Grieve; nutrient uptake by plants under stress conditions, Syed Manzoor Alam; constraints by water stress on plant growth, Francisco I. Pugnaire et al; altered nitrogen metabolism under environmental stress conditions, Etienne Rabe; protein synthesis by plants under stressful conditions, R.S. Dubey. Part 4 Molecular biology and microbiological aspects of plant responses under salt, water, and other environmental stress conditions: cell elongation control under stress conditions, Grant R. Cramer and Daniel C. Bowman; genome size and environmental stress in gymnosperm crops, Ronald James Newton et al; cellular and molecular responses to water deficit stress in woody plants, Edward A. Funkhouser et al; osmoregulatory role of proline in water- and salt-stressed plants, Bruria Heuer; plant hormones and stress phenomena, Syed Shamshad Mehdi Naqvi; abscisic acid under drought and salt stress, Wolfram Hartung and William J. Davies. Part 5 Empirical investigations of specific plants and crops grown under saline, drought, and other environmental stress conditions: response of green beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) to salt stress, Mohammad Pessarakli; salinity and the production of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), Steven E. Smith; response of maize (Zea mays L.) to salinity, Grant R. Cramer; general effects of salt stress on growth and symbiotic nitrogen fixation in soybean, Ranga Velagaleti and Sarah M. Schweitzer; response of temperate forage legumes to waterlogging and salinity, Clive L. Noble, Mary-Jane E. Rogers; salinity tolerance in atriplex species - fodder shrubs of arid lands, Cyrus M. McKell; juncus and kochia - fiber-and fodder-producing halophytes under salinity and aridity stress, M.A. Zahran. Part 6 Future promise - plants and crops for cultivation under stressful conditions: potential plants and crops for cultivation under moderately saline conditions, Rolf Carlsson; chenopodiaceae species-salt-tolerant plants for green biomass and grain production, Rolf Carlsson; strategies and scope for improving salinity tolerance in crop plants, G.V. Subbarao, Chris Johansen. (Part Contents).