Plant Tolerance to Individual and Concurrent Stresses

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Concurrent Stresses Are Perceived as New State of Stress by the Plants: Overview of Impact of Abiotic and Biotic Stress Combinations

   • Aarti Gupta, Muthappa Senthil-Kumar

   Pages 1-15

3. Closing the Biotic and Abiotic Stress-Mediated Yield Gap in Cotton by Improving Soil Management and Agronomic Practices

   • Gunasekhar Nachimuthu, Ashley A. Webb

   Pages 17-31

4. Impact of Concurrent Weed or Herbicide Stress with Other Biotic and Abiotic Stressors on Crop Production

   • Muthukumar Bagavathiannan, Vijay Singh, Prabhu Govindasamy, Seth Bernard Abugho, Rui Liu

   Pages 33-45

5. Heat and Soil Moisture Stress Differentially Impact Chickpea Plant Infection with Fungal Pathogens

   • Mamta Sharma, Raju Ghosh

   Pages 47-57

6. Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Improving Stress Tolerance of Graminaceous Crops to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses: Progress and Prospects

   • Roshan Kumar Singh, Pranav Pankaj Sahu, Mehanathan Muthamilarasan, Annvi Dhaka, Manoj Prasad

   Pages 59-81

7. Plant Tolerance to Combined Stress: An Overview

   • Wusirika Ramakrishna, Anuradha Kumari

   Pages 83-90

8. Drought and Heat Tolerance in Chickpea: Transcriptome and Morphophysiological Changes Under Individual and Combined Stress

   • Renu Yadav, Sumandeep Juneja, Priyanka Singh, Sanjeev Kumar

   Pages 91-109

9. Interaction of Light and Temperature Signaling at the Plant Interphase: From Cue to Stress

   • Juhi Bhattacharya, Upendra Kumar Singh, Aashish Ranjan

   Pages 111-132

10. Plant Responses to Combined Drought and Pathogen Infection: Current Understanding on the Role of Phytohormones

    • Prachi Pandey, Muthappa Senthil-Kumar

    Pages 133-149

11. Simultaneous Expression of Abiotic Stress-Responsive Genes: An Approach to Improve Multiple Stress Tolerance in Crops

    • M. S. Parvathi, Karaba N. Nataraja

    Pages 151-163

12. Tissue Water Status and Bacterial Pathogen Infection: How They Are Correlated?

    • Urooj Fatima, Muthappa Senthil-Kumar

    Pages 165-178

This book focuses on multiple plant stresses and the molecular basis of adaptation, addressing the molecular mechanism and adaptation for both abiotic and biotic stresses.

Ensuring the yield of crop plants grown under multiple individual and/or combined stresses is essential to sustaining productivity. In this regard, the development of broad-spectrum stress-tolerant plants is important.

However, to date information has largely been compiled only on the individual stress tolerance mechanisms, and the mechanisms behind plants’ tolerance to two or more individual or simultaneous stresses are not fully understood. Especially combinatorial stress, a new stress altogether, has only recently been made the object of systematic study.

Now several research groups around the world have begun exploring the concurrent stress tolerance mechanisms under both biotic and abiotic stress combinations. This book presents contributions from various experts, highlighting the findingsof their multiple individual and concurrent stress tolerance dissection studies.

• Concurrent Stress
• Drought and Disease Resistance
• Functional Genomics
• Multiple Stress Tolerance
• Plant-pathogen Interaction

• National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India

  Muthappa Senthil-Kumar

Dr. Senthil-Kumar Muthappa is a scientist at National Institute of Plant Genome Research, New Delhi, India. He received his B. Sc. in agriculture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore and M. Sc. and Ph. D in crop physiology from University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. He was a post-doctoral fellow at The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Ardmore Oklahoma, USA. He has published over 40 research articles and several review articles on understanding plant interaction with drought stress and pathogens. Currently, his research team is working to understand the interaction of drought and pathogen stress and their combined impact on plants.

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