An elected fellow of numerous academies, Narendra Tuteja is currently a senior scientist at ICGEB, New Delhi, India. He has made significant contributions to crop improvement under adverse conditions, reporting the first helicase from plant and human cells and demonstrating new roles of Ku autoantigen, nucleolin and eIF4A as DNA helicases. Furthermore, he discovered novel functions of helicases, G-proteins, CBL-CIPK and LecRLK in plant stress tolerance, and PLC and MAP-kinase as effectors for G proteins. Narendra Tuteja also reported several high salinity stress tolerant genes from plants and fungi and developed salt/drought tolerant plants.Currently assistant professor at MD University, Rohtak, India, Sarvajeet Singh Gill has made significant contributions to abiotic stress tolerance. Together with Narendra Tuteja he worked on plant helicases and discovered a novel function of plant MCM6 in salinity stress tolerance that will help improve crop production at sub-optimal conditions. A recipient of the Junior Scientist of the Year Award 2008 from the National Environmental Science Academy, Sarvajeet Gill has edited several books and has a number of research papers, review articles, and book chapters to his name.

• PART I: CLIMATE CHANGEClimate Change: Challenges for Future Crop Adjustments (Jerry L. Hatfield)Developing Robust Crop Plants for Sustaining Growth and Yield under Adverse Climatic Changes (Autar Mattoo, Vijaya Shukla)Climate Change and Abiotic Stress Management in India (R.B. Singh)PART2: ABIOTIC STRESS TOLERANCE AND CLIMATE CHANGEPlant Environmental Stress Responses for Survival and Biomass Enhancement (Yuriko Osakabe, Keishi Osakabe, Kazuo Shinozaki)Heat Stress and Roots (Scott Heckathorn, Anju Giri, Sasmita Mishra, Deepesh Bista)The Role of Nitrosative Signaling in Response to Changing Climates (Panagiota Filippou, Chrystalla Antoniou, Vasileios Fotopoulos)Current Concepts about Salinity and Salinity Tolerance in Plants (Askim Hediye Sekmen, Melike Bor, Filiz Ozdemir, Ismail Turka)Salinity Tolerance of Avicennia officinalis L. (Acanthaceae) from Gujarat Coasts of India (Ashish Dahyabhai, Patel Kishor, Lalcheta Sarvajeet, Singh Gill, Narendra Tuteja)Drought Stress Responses in Plants, Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense (Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Ritu Gill, Masayuki Fujita)Plant Adaptation to Abiotic and Genotoxic Stress: Relevance to Climate Change and Evolution (Brahma B. Panda, V. Mohan M. Achary, Srikrishna Mahanty, Kamal K. Panda)UV-B Perception in Plant Roots (Ken Yokawa, Frantisek Baluska)Improving the Plant Root System Architecture to Combat Abiotic Stresses Incurred by Global Climate Changes (Ananda K. Sarkar , Karthikeyan Mayandi, Vibhav Gautam, Suvakanta Barik, Shabari Sarkar Das)Activation of the Jasmonate Biosynthetic Pathway in Roots in Drought Stress (Palmiro Poltronieri, Marco Taurino, Stefania De Domenico, Stefania Bonsegna, Angelo Santino)PART3: APPROACHES FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATIONCan Carbon in Bioenergy Crops Mitigate Global Climate Change? (Abdullah A. Jaradat) Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies of Plant under Drought and High Temperature Stress (P. Ratnakumar, S. K. Raina, Satish Kumar, Kiran P. Bhagat, Yogeshwar Singh, S.K. Bal)Emerging Strategies to Face Challenges Imposed by Climate Change and Abiotic Stresses in Wheat (Bharti Garg, Shreelekha Misra, Narendra Tuteja)Protein Structure-Function Paradigm in Plant Stress Tolerance (Neel Sarovar Bhavesh, Harshesh Bhatt, Anil Kumar)Abiotic Stress-responsive smallRNAs Mediated Plant Improvement under a Changing Climate (Basel Khraiwesh, Enas Qudeimat)The Impact of Climate Change on microRNA Expression in Plants (Vallabhi Ghorecha, Nadiminti Krishnayya, Ramanjulu Sunkar)Role of ABA Signaling in Drought Tolerance and Pre-harvest Sprouting under Climate Change (Yasunari Fujita, Kazuo Nakashima, Takuya Yoshida, Miki Fujita, Kazuo Shinozaki, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki)Regulatory Role of Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants (Srinivas Reddy Dumbala, Pooja Bhatnagar Mathur, K.K. Sharma)Transcription Factors: Modulating Plant Adaption in the Scenario of Changing Climate (Swati Puranik, Manoj Prasad)Role of Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants (Neelam R. Yadav, Jyoti Taunk, Asha Rani, Bharti Aneja, Ram C. Yadav)Coping with Drought and Salinity Stresses: The Role of Transcription Factors in Crop Improvement (Karina F. Ribichich, Agustin L. Arce, Raquel Lia Chan)Role of Na+/H+ Antiporters in Na+ Homeostasis in Halophytic Plants (Pradeep K. Agarwal, Narendra Singh Yadav, Bhavanath Jha)Role of Plant Metabolites in Abiotic Stress Tolerance under Changing Climatic Conditions with Special Reference to Secondary Compounds (Akula Ramakrishna, G.A. Ravishankar)Metabolome Analyses for Understanding Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants to Evolve Management Strategies (Usha Chakraborty, Bhumika Pradhan, Rohini Lama)Metabolomic Approaches for Improving Crops under Adverse Conditions (Prabodh Kumar Trivedi, Nehal Akhtar, Parul Gupta, Pravendra Nath)Improvement of Cereal Crops through Androgenesis and Transgenic Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance to Mitigate the Challenges of Climate Change in Sustainable Agriculture (S.M. Shahinul Islam, Israt Ara, Narendra Tuteja)Bioprospection of Weed Species for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants under Climate Change Scenario: Finding the Gold Buried within Weed Species (Meenal Rathore, Raghwendra Singh, Bhumesh Kumar)PART IV CROP IMPROVEMENT UNDER CLIMATE CHANGEClimate Change and Heat Stress Tolerance in Chickpea (P.M. Gaur, A.K. Jukanti, S. Srinivasan, S.K. Chaturvedi, P.S. Basu, A. Babbar, V. Jayalakshmi, H. Nayyar, V. Devasirvatham, N. Mallikarjuna, L. Krishnamurthy, C.L.L. Gowda)Micropropagation of Aloe vera for Improvement and Enhanced Productivity (Narpat S. Shekhawat, Mangal S. Rathore, Smita Shekhawat, Sumitra K. Choudhary, Mahendra Phulwaria, Harish, Manoj K. Rai, J.B. Vibha, Nitika Rathore, A.K. Patel, Vinod Kataria)Climate Change and Organic Carbon Storage in Bangladesh Forests (Mohammed Alamgir, Stephen M. Turton)Divergent Strategies to Cope Up With Climate Change in Himalayan Plants (Sanjay Kumar)In vitro culture of Plants of Arid Environment (Harchand R. Dagla, Shari Nair, Deepak K. Vyas, Juleri M. Upendra)Salicylic Acid a Novel Plant Growth Regulator: Role in Physiological Processes and Abiotic Stresses under Changing Environment (Pushp Sharma)Phosphorus Starvation Response in Plants and Opportunities for Crop Improvement (Bipin K. Pandey, Poonam Mehra, Jitender Giri)Bacterial Endophytes and their Significance in the Sustainable Production of Food in Non-Legumes (Aparna Raturi, Prasad Gyaneshwar, S.K. Singh, Nisha Tak, Hukam S. Gehlot)Endophytic Fungi for Stress Tolerance (Nutan Kaushik, V Kumar)Polyamines and their Role in Plant Osmotic Stress Tolerance (Abhijit Dey, Kamala Gupta, Bhaskar Gupta)

Climate Change and Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance should prove to be an invaluable reference for academic plant biologists as well as agriculturalists and government agencies. (The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2016)