Section 1: Rewiring stress responses in plants: Exogenous priming1. Exogenous priming and abiotic stress challengesMurat Dikilitas, Asif B. Shikari, Behzat Baran and Avinash Mishra2. Reprograming stress memory in plants: primeomicsManish Kumar Patel, Sonika Pandey, Md. Intesaful Haque, Rajesh Kumar Jha and Avinash Mishra3. Concepts and possibilities in priming- mediated cross-tolerance to plant stressVikash Kumar, Mohini Yadav, Maneesha S. Saxena and Saurabh C. Saxena4. Natural compound priming induces abiotic stress tolerance in plants: possible mechanismsAshutosh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar Jha, Vinod K. Nigam, Dev Mani Pandey and Aakanksha Wany5. Natural priming agents of plants to alleviate multiple stress toleranceHemanth Kumar Manne, Nisha Kumari, Sonia, Vaishnavi Kodidhala, Sushil, Ram Avtar, Minakshi Jattan, Babita Rani, Jyothi Duhan and Sunayana Rati6. Nanoparticles-based biopriming for enhanced biotic stress mitigationBabita Choudhary and Avinash Mishra7. Alterations in plant primary and secondary metabolism by primingMeenakshi Rawat, Khushbu Kumari, Anita Kumari, Jhilmil Nath, Suman Gusain, Shubham Joshi and Rohit Joshi8. Cold priming and memory induced acquired tolerance and possible mechanism in plantsSuman Gusain, Shubham Joshi, Anita Kumari, Jhilmil Nath, Khushbu Kumari, Meenakshi Rawat and Rohit Joshi9. Redox priming of seeds to ameliorate salinity tolerance in plantsSadiq Hussain, Aysha Rasheed, Farah Nisar, Bilquees Gul and Abdul Hameed10. Efficacy and mechanisms of seed priming with melatonin to enhance salinity toleranceSadiq Hussain, Aysha Rasheed, Farah Nisar, Bilquees Gul and Abdul Hameed11. Exogenous proline-mediated stress tolerance in plantsHuseyin Turker, Sevingul Beydilli, Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal and Dilek Unal12. Modulation of abiotic stress tolerance in plants by exogenous glycine betaineRajesh Kumar Jha, Subhash Chandra Prasad, Ashutosh Kumar, Aakanksha Wany and Avinash Mishra13. Hormones priming: regulator for stress tolerance in plantsPankaj Kumar Tripathi, Preeti Patel, Prachi Garg, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Manikant Tripathi, Neelam Pathak and Pankaj Singh14. Mechanisms of priming in enhancing stress toleranceAsif B. Shikari, Murat Dikilitas, Behzat Baran and Avinash Mishra15. An overview of the effect of seed priming induced physiochemical and molecular processes in plants: abiotic stress toleranceTamanna Sharma, Ayushi Malik, Anukrati Dhabhai, Shalini Tailor, Khushboo Jain, Mukesh Meena and Avinash Marwal16. Epigenetic and chromatin based plant stress adaptationRekha Agrawal, Akshita Chaudhary, Amrita Singh and Jitendra Kumar Thakur17. Epigenetic memory in plants for stress response and adaptationRekha Agrawal, Amrita Singh and Jitendra Kumar ThakurSection 2: Mitigating stress by engineering metabolic/regulatory genes18. Mechanisms of sensing abiotic stress responses in plantsHansa Sehgal, Chandrakant Pant, Soham Ray, Nidhi Sharma and Mukul Joshi19. Salinity stress tolerance in plants: antioxidant defense mechanisms and latest developmentsHadi Pirasteh-Anosheh, Munir Ozturk, Alvina Gul, Volkan Altay, Pedro Garcia-Caparros, Seyedeh Elahe Hashemi, Nida Mushtaq, Aneeqa Hanif, Kristina Toderich, Tuba Arjumend and Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal20. Metabolic genes: a toolbox for combating salt and drought stress in crop improvementAnmol Gupta, Kratika Singh, Priyam Vandana, Lalit Dev Tiwari and Manoj Kumar21. Metabolic genes: a toolbox for crop improvement by mitigating the effects of metal and waterlogging stressSonia, Nisha Kumari, Hemanthkumar Manne, Vaishnavi Kodidhala, Sushil, Ram Avtar, Minakshi Jattan, Babita Rani, Gurumurthy Peddinti and Sunayana Rati22. Genetic manipulation for stress-tolerant plants: current status and challengesSwati Gupta, Rimjim Gupta, Sanjana Kaul and Manoj K. Dhar23. Regulatory genes for the improvement of salt and drought toleranceShweta Jha, Jawahar Singh, Subhajit Dutta, Vishal Varshney, Vishnu Mishra, Deepak Choudhary and Nisha Tak24.