Legumes under Environmental Stress

List of contributors vii
Preface xi
About the editors xiii
1 Legumes and breeding under abiotic stress: An overview 1
Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef and Parvaiz Ahmad
2 Salt stress and leguminous crops: present status and prospects 21
P.S. Sha Valli Khan and P. Osman Basha
3 Nutrient deficiencies under stress in legumes: an overview 53
Fakiha Afzal Tahira Khan Ammarah Khan Saifullah Khan Hammad Raza Ayesha Ihsan Mohammad Abass Ahanger and Alvina Gul Kazi
4 Chickpea: Role and responses under abiotic and biotic stress 67
Saiema Rasool Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef and Parvaiz Ahmad
5 Chickpea and temperature stress: an overview 81
Viola Devasirvatham Daniel K.Y. Tan Pooran M. Gaur and Richard M. Trethowan
6 Effect of pesticides on leguminous plants: an overview 91
Harpreet Kaur Renu Bhardwaj Vinod Kumar Anket Sharma Ravinder Singh and Ashwani Kumar Thukral
7 Oxidative stress and antioxidant defence systems in response to pesticide stress 103
Fozia Bashir and Sumira Jan
8 Legume-rhizobia symbiotic performance under abiotic stresses: factors influencing tolerance behaviour 125
Haythem Mhadhbi Photini V. Mylona and Alexios N. Polidoros
9 Microbial strategies for the improvement of legume production in hostile environments 133
Dilfuza Egamberdieva Vyacheslav Shurigin Subramaniam Gopalakrishnan and Ram Sharma
10 Role of abscisic acid in legumes under abiotic stress 145
Analia Llanes Genoveva Devinar and Virginia Luna
11 Exogenous application of phytoprotectants in legumes against environmental stress 161
Mirza Hasanuzzaman Kamrun Nahar Md. Mahabub Alam Shakeel Ahmad and Masayuki Fujita
12 Genetic and molecular responses of legumes in a changing environment 199
Mustafeez Mujtaba Babar Najam-us-Sahar Sadaf Zaidi Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz and Alvina Gul Kazi
13 Omics approaches and abiotic stress tolerance in legumes 215
Syeda Fatma Hasan Bukhari Sadia Arshad Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz and Alvina Gul Kazi
14 MicroRNA-mediated regulatory functions under abiotic stresses in legumes 231
Syed Sarfraz Hussain Mohammad Ali and Bujun Shi
15 Biotechnology approaches to overcome biotic and abiotic stress constraints in legumes 247
Mustafeez Mujtaba Babar Najam-us-Sahar Sadaf Zaidi Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz and Alvina Gul Kazi
16 Gene pyramiding and omics approaches for stress tolerance in leguminous plants 265
Neha Handa Renu Bhardwaj Ashwani Kumar Thukral Saroj Arora Sukhmeen Kaur Kohli Vandana Gautam and Tajinder Kaur
17 Combating phosphorus deficiency on alkaline calcareous soils by adsorption isotherm technique for legume crops in arid environments 285
Muhammad Waqas Abdul Hannan and Abdul Gaffar Sagoo
Index 301