Emission and Function of Volatile Organic Compounds in Response to Abiotic Stress

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Preface IX Part 1 Abiotic Stresses 1 Chapter 1 Imaging of Chlorophyll a Fluorescence: A Tool to Study Abiotic Stress in Plants 3 Lucia Guidi and Elena Degl’Innocenti Chapter 2 Salinity Stress and Salt Tolerance 21 Petronia Carillo, Maria Grazia Annunziata, Giovanni Pontecorvo, Amodio Fuggi and Pasqualina Woodrow Chapter 3 Abiotic Stress in Harvested Fruits and Vegetables 39 Peter M.A. Toivonen and D. Mark Hodges Chapter 4 Towards Understanding Plant Response to Heavy Metal Stress 59 Zhao Yang and Chengcai Chu Chapter 5 Plant N Fluxes and Modulation by Nitrogen, Heat and Water Stresses: A Review Based on Comparison of Legumes and Non Legume Plants 79 Salon Christophe, Avice Jean-Christophe, Larmure Annabelle, Ourry Alain, Prudent Marion and Voisin Anne-Sophie Chapter 6 Biotechnological Solutions for Enhancing the Aluminium Resistance of Crop Plants 119 Gaofeng Zhou, Emmanuel Delhaize, Meixue Zhou and Peter R Ryan Chapter 7 Soil Bacteria Support and Protect Plants Against Abiotic Stresses 143 Bianco Carmen and Defez Roberto Chapter 8 Soil Salinisation and Salt Stress in Crop Production 171 Gabrijel Ondrasek, Zed Rengel and Szilvia Veres VI Contents Part 2 Mechanisms and Tolerance 191 Chapter 9 Current Knowledge in Physiological and Genetic Mechanisms Underpinning Tolerances to Alkaline and Saline Subsoil Constraints of Broad Acre Cropping in Dryland Regions 193 Muhammad Javid, Marc Nicolas and Rebecca Ford Chapter 10 Trehalose and Abiotic Stress in Biological Systems 215 Mihaela Iordachescu and Ryozo Imai Chapter 11 Glyoxalase System and Reactive Oxygen Species Detoxification System in Plant Abiotic Stress Response and Tolerance: An Intimate Relationship 235 Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva and Masayuki Fujita Chapter 12 Stomatal Responses to Drought Stress and Air Humidity 267 Arve LE, Torre S, Olsen JE and Tanino KK Part 3 Genetics and Adaptation 281 Chapter 13 Plant Genes for Abiotic Stress 283 Loredana F. Ciarmiello, Pasqualina Woodrow, Amodio Fuggi, Giovanni Pontecorvo and Petronia Carillo Chapter 14 Plant Metabolomics: A Characterisation of Plant Responses to Abiotic Stresses 309 Annamaria Genga, Monica Mattana, Immacolata Coraggio, Franca Locatelli, Pietro Piffanelli and Roberto Consonni Chapter 15 The Importance of Genetic Diversity to Manage Abiotic Stress 351 Geraldo Magela de Almeida Cançado Chapter 16 Emission and Function of Volatile Organic Compounds in Response to Abiotic Stress 367 Francesco Spinelli, Antonio Cellini, Livia Marchetti, Karthik Mudigere Nagesh and Chiara Piovene Chapter 17 Epigenetic Chromatin Regulators as Mediators of Abiotic Stress Responses in Cereals 395 Aliki Kapazoglou and Athanasios Tsaftaris Chapter 18 C4 Plants Adaptation to High Levels of CO2 and to Drought Environments 415 María Valeria Lara and Carlos Santiago Andreo