Dr Parvaiz Ahmad, Department of Botany, S.P. College, University of Kashmir, IndiaDr Ahmad is currently Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany where he teaches on stress physiology and molecular biology. Previous to this he taught at GDC (Boys) Anantnag, Kashmir, India, until May 2013. He has been working on environmental stress in plants since 2001, and his areas of expertise include plant molecular biology (abiotic stress responses in plants (physio-biochemical responses and enzyme activity during stress), developing abiotic tolerant plants), plant microbe interaction (crop improvement through AMF), plant tissue culture, and stress physiology. Dr Ahmad is on the Editorial boards of Botany Research International and Journal of Phytologym, and he is a reviewer on sixteen other international journals including Physiologia Plantarum (Wiley-Blackwell). He has contributed chapters to 26 books and co-edited 14 volumes with Springer, Elsevier and Wiley.

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• List of contributorsAbout the EditorForewordPrefaceChapter 1: Drought stress and photosynthesis in plantsChapter 2: The Role of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Induction in Plants   Adaptation to Water DeficitChapter 3: Stomatal Responses to Drought StressChapter 4: Recurrent droughts: keys for sustainable water management from case studies of tree fruit orchards in central ChileChapter 5: Global explicit profiling of water deficit-induced diminutions in agricultural crop sustainability: a key emerging trends and challengesChapter 6: Sustainable Agricultural Practices for Water Quality ProtectionChapter 7: Salinity and Drought Stress: Similarities and Differences in Oxidative Responses and Cellular Redox regulationChapter 8: Oxidative stress and plant responses to pathogens under drought conditionsChapter 9: Potential Usage of Antioxidants, Hormones and Plant Extracts: An Innovative Approach in Taming Water Stress Limitation in Crop PlantsChapter 10: Water stress in plants: From gene to biotechnologyChapter 11: Plant Aquaporin Biotechnology: Challenges and Prospects for abiotic stress tolerance under changing global environmentChapter 12: Role of proteins in alleviating drought stress in plantsChapter 13: Avenues for improving drought tolerance in crops by ABA regulation: Molecular and physiological basisChapter 14: MYB transcription factors for enhanced drought tolerance in plantsChapter 15: Analysis of novel haplotype variations at TaDREB-D1 and TaCwi-D1 genes influencing drought tolerance in bread/synthetic wheat derivatives: An OverviewChapter 16: Towards integration of system based approach for understanding drought stress in plantsChapter 17: MiRNA/siRNA-based approaches to enhance drought tolerance of barley and wheat under drought stressChapter 18: MicroRNAs and Their Role in Drought Stress Response in PlantsChapter 19: Sugar Signaling in Plants: A Novel Mechanism to Drought Stress ManagementChapter 20: Agricultural, socio-economic, and cultural relevance of crop wild relatives, in particular food legume landraces, in Northern Africa

Dr Parvaiz Ahmad, Department of Botany, S.P. College, University of Kashmir, IndiaDr Ahmad is currently Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany where he teaches on stress physiology and molecular biology. Previous to this he taught at GDC (Boys) Anantnag, Kashmir, India, until May 2013. He has been working on environmental stress in plants since 2001, and his areas of expertise include plant molecular biology (abiotic stress responses in plants (physio-biochemical responses and enzyme activity during stress), developing abiotic tolerant plants), plant microbe interaction (crop improvement through AMF), plant tissue culture, and stress physiology. Dr Ahmad is on the Editorial boards of Botany Research International and Journal of Phytologym, and he is a reviewer on sixteen other international journals including Physiologia Plantarum (Wiley-Blackwell). He has contributed chapters to 26 books and co-edited 14 volumes with Springer, Elsevier and Wiley.

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• List of contributorsAbout the EditorForewordPrefaceChapter 1: Drought stress and photosynthesis in plantsChapter 2: The Role of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Induction in Plants   Adaptation to Water DeficitChapter 3: Stomatal Responses to Drought StressChapter 4: Recurrent droughts: keys for sustainable water management from case studies of tree fruit orchards in central ChileChapter 5: Global explicit profiling of water deficit-induced diminutions in agricultural crop sustainability: a key emerging trends and challengesChapter 6: Sustainable Agricultural Practices for Water Quality ProtectionChapter 7: Salinity and Drought Stress: Similarities and Differences in Oxidative Responses and Cellular Redox regulationChapter 8: Oxidative stress and plant responses to pathogens under drought conditionsChapter 9: Potential Usage of Antioxidants, Hormones and Plant Extracts: An Innovative Approach in Taming Water Stress Limitation in Crop PlantsChapter 10: Water stress in plants: From gene to biotechnologyChapter 11: Plant Aquaporin Biotechnology: Challenges and Prospects for abiotic stress tolerance under changing global environmentChapter 12: Role of proteins in alleviating drought stress in plantsChapter 13: Avenues for improving drought tolerance in crops by ABA regulation: Molecular and physiological basisChapter 14: MYB transcription factors for enhanced drought tolerance in plantsChapter 15: Analysis of novel haplotype variations at TaDREB-D1 and TaCwi-D1 genes influencing drought tolerance in bread/synthetic wheat derivatives: An OverviewChapter 16: Towards integration of system based approach for understanding drought stress in plantsChapter 17: MiRNA/siRNA-based approaches to enhance drought tolerance of barley and wheat under drought stressChapter 18: MicroRNAs and Their Role in Drought Stress Response in PlantsChapter 19: Sugar Signaling in Plants: A Novel Mechanism to Drought Stress ManagementChapter 20: Agricultural, socio-economic, and cultural relevance of crop wild relatives, in particular food legume landraces, in Northern Africa

Dr Parvaiz Ahmad, Department of Botany, S.P. College, University of Kashmir, IndiaDr Ahmad is currently Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany where he teaches on stress physiology and molecular biology. Previous to this he taught at GDC (Boys) Anantnag, Kashmir, India, until May 2013. He has been working on environmental stress in plants since 2001, and his areas of expertise include plant molecular biology (abiotic stress responses in plants (physio-biochemical responses and enzyme activity during stress), developing abiotic tolerant plants), plant microbe interaction (crop improvement through AMF), plant tissue culture, and stress physiology. Dr Ahmad is on the Editorial boards of Botany Research International and Journal of Phytologym, and he is a reviewer on sixteen other international journals including Physiologia Plantarum (Wiley-Blackwell). He has contributed chapters to 26 books and co-edited 14 volumes with Springer, Elsevier and Wiley.

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• List of contributorsAbout the EditorForewordPrefaceChapter 1: Drought stress and photosynthesis in plantsChapter 2: The Role of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism Induction in Plants   Adaptation to Water DeficitChapter 3: Stomatal Responses to Drought StressChapter 4: Recurrent droughts: keys for sustainable water management from case studies of tree fruit orchards in central ChileChapter 5: Global explicit profiling of water deficit-induced diminutions in agricultural crop sustainability: a key emerging trends and challengesChapter 6: Sustainable Agricultural Practices for Water Quality ProtectionChapter 7: Salinity and Drought Stress: Similarities and Differences in Oxidative Responses and Cellular Redox regulationChapter 8: Oxidative stress and plant responses to pathogens under drought conditionsChapter 9: Potential Usage of Antioxidants, Hormones and Plant Extracts: An Innovative Approach in Taming Water Stress Limitation in Crop PlantsChapter 10: Water stress in plants: From gene to biotechnologyChapter 11: Plant Aquaporin Biotechnology: Challenges and Prospects for abiotic stress tolerance under changing global environmentChapter 12: Role of proteins in alleviating drought stress in plantsChapter 13: Avenues for improving drought tolerance in crops by ABA regulation: Molecular and physiological basisChapter 14: MYB transcription factors for enhanced drought tolerance in plantsChapter 15: Analysis of novel haplotype variations at TaDREB-D1 and TaCwi-D1 genes influencing drought tolerance in bread/synthetic wheat derivatives: An OverviewChapter 16: Towards integration of system based approach for understanding drought stress in plantsChapter 17: MiRNA/siRNA-based approaches to enhance drought tolerance of barley and wheat under drought stressChapter 18: MicroRNAs and Their Role in Drought Stress Response in PlantsChapter 19: Sugar Signaling in Plants: A Novel Mechanism to Drought Stress ManagementChapter 20: Agricultural, socio-economic, and cultural relevance of crop wild relatives, in particular food legume landraces, in Northern Africa