Contents: Preface. Contributors. I. Molecular physiology of stress responses in plants: 1. The role of flavonoids in plant resistance to Abiotic Stress/Iker Hernandez, Leonor Alegre, Serg Munne-Bosch. 2. Plasma Membrane-Associated signaling proteins in the abscisic acid response network/Zhi Liang Zheng and Zeyu Xin. 3. Plan Secondary Metabolism in response to the environment/L.V. Astarita and E.R. Santarem. 4. Chickpea: impact of drought and temperature on physiological traits and yield/Tejpal Singh and P.S. Deshmukh. 5. Salt stress tolerance in crop plants: molecular and physiological considerations/P. Agarwal. 6. Mechanism of aluminum toxicity and tolerance in higher plant/Pallavi Sharma and R.S. Dubey. 7. Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and the environmental constraints/Neera Garg and Ranju Singla. 8. Oxidative damage and oxygen deficiency stress/A. Hemantaranjan, Savita Thakur, Sunil K. Pandey, Zaffar M. Dar and S.K. Bansal. II. Physiology of germination and dormancy: 9. The physiology of dormancy of Onion Bulb Allium Cepa/Noureddine Benkeblia. 10. Germination: a crucial step in plant growth/G. Gavazzi, M. Cocucci, G. Consonni, M. Lucchin, R. Masin, N. Negrini and G. Zanin. III. Plant growth regulators: somatic embryogenesis: 11. Role of polyamines during somatic embyrogenesis/P.K. Nagar and Madhu Sharma. IV. Molecular physiology and biotechnology of flowering: 12. Crossroads of Floral Development: Plant Hormone Interactions during flower organ identity and development in Arabidopsis/Elisson Romanel, Erica Duarte Silveira, Marcelo Carnier Dornelas and Marcio Alves-Ferreira. V. Recent advances in mineral nutrition research: 13. Cellular Boron: so many interactions for such a few roles?/Georgios Liakopoulos, Sotiria Stavrianakou and George Karabourniotis. 14. Molecular approach for enhanced iron acquisition to sustain crop productivity under Calcareous soils/K. Singh, Yogeshwar Singh, Rajput Pankaj Kumar and S. Mori. 15. Vanadium in plants, Fungi, and Bacteria: structural aspects and functions/Enrique J. Baran. 16. Mettallo-enzymes in nutrient constraints diagnosis in Citrus: emerging trends/A.K. Srivastava, Shyam Singh and Pauline Alila. VI. Molecular plant physiology and metabolism: 17. Localization of Lipoxygenases in higher plants/Ewa Szczuka and Ewa Skorzynska-Polit. 18. Genetic regulation of signal transduction pathways in Rhizobium-Legume Symbiosis/Neera Garg, Jasleen Kaur, Ranju Singla and Geetanjali. 19. Importance of assay of maximum catalytic activity of enzymes from plants and their role in regulation of Metabolism/Padmanabh Dwivedi. VII. Plant organic acids: 20. Chlorogenic acids: diversity in green Beans of wild coffee species/Campa Claudine, Rakotomalala Jean-Jacques R., de Kochko Alexandre and Hamon Serge. VIII. Plant physiology in sustainability of agriculture: 21. Mycorrhizal technology in sustainable development of stressed ecosystems/Richa Raghuwanshi and Kavita Shah. 22. Effects of Gibberellic Acid and sulphur on yield efficiency of mustard/Nafees A. Khan, Mohammad Mobin and Sarvajeet Singh.
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