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Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress

Tuteja, Narendra / Gill, Sarvajeet S. / Tiburcio, Antonio F. / Tuteja, Renu (Editor)

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1. Edition March 2012
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ISBN: 978-3-527-32840-6
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The well-balanced international mix of contributors from industry and academia provide the latest update on improving crop resistance against abiotic stress by way of the advanced key methods of proteomics, genomics and metabolomics.

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The latest update on improving crop resistance to abiotic stress using the advanced key methods of proteomics, genomics and metabolomics. The wellbalanced
international mix of contributors from industry and academia cover work carried out on individual crop plants, while also including studies of model organisms that can then be applied to specific crop plants

Contents
Preface
Foreword

Volume I
PART I INTRODUCTION INTO PLANT ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSE
Understanding the `Commoneome? Operative in Plants in Response to Various Abiotic Stresses (Hemant R Kushwaha, Sneh L Singla-Pareek, Sudhir K Sopory, and Ashwani Pareek)
Abiotic-Stress Tolerance in Plants: An Industry Perspective (Shoba Sivasankar, Robert W. Williams, and Thomas W. Greene)
Generation and Scavenging of Reactive Oxygen Species in Plants under Stress (Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Lamabam Peter Singh, Ritu Gill, and Narendra Tuteja)
Salinity Stress: A Major Constraint in Crop Production (Narendra Tuteja, Lamabam Peter Singh, Sarvajeet Singh Gill and Renu Tuteja)
Cold Stress and Abiotic Stress Signaling in Plants (Wenqiong J. Chen)
Mechanism of Sulfur dioxide Toxicity and Tolerance in Crop Plants (Lamabam Peter Singh, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Ritu Gill, and Narendra Tuteja)
Excess Soil Phosphorus: Accelerated P Transfer, Water Quality Deterioration and Sustainable Remediation Strategies (Nilesh C. Sharma, and Shivendra V. Sahi)

PART II METHODS TO IMPROVE PLANT ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSE
IIA Introductory Methods
Genetic Modification of Crops: Past, Present and Future (Nina V Fedoroff)
Translational Biology Approaches to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops (Rina Iannacone, Francesco Cellini, Giorgio Morelli, and Ida Ruberti)
IIB Omics
Functional Genomics of Drought Tolerance in Crops: Engineering Transcriptional Regulators and Pathways (Bala Rathinasabapathi)
Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Approaches to the Analysis of Plant Freezing Tolerance and Cold Acclimation (Dirk K. Hincha, Carmen Espinoza, and Ellen Zuther)
Omics Techniques in Crop Research: An Overview (B. Fakrudin, Roberto Tuberosa, and Rajeev K Varshney)
The Use of 'Omics' Approaches in Arabidopsis for the Improvement of Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Aleksandra Skirycz, and Matthew A Hannah)
Functional Genomics and Computational Biology Tools for Gene Discovery for Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Kailash C. Bansal, Amit Katiyar, Shuchi Smita, and Viswanathan Chinnusamy)
Transcriptomics and Proteomics Approaches for Salinity Tolerance in Crop Plants (Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill, Iqbal Ahmad, Narendra Tuteja, Praveen Soni, Ashwani Pareek, Shahid Umar, Muhammad Iqbal, Mário Pacheco, Armando C. Duarte, and Eduarda Pereira)
Plant Tissue Culture and Genetic Transformation for Crop Improvement (SS Gosal, and MS Kang)
A Systems-Based Molecular Biology Analysis of Resurrection Plants for Crop and Forage Improvement in Arid Environments (John P. Moore, and Jill Farrant)

IIC Other Approaches
Molecular Breeding for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance using Halophytes (Ajay Parida, Suja George, and K. Kavita)
Helicases in Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants (Narendra Tuteja, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, and Renu Tuteja)
Transcription Factors: Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (Pil Joon Seo, Jae-Hoon Jung, and Chung-Mo Park)
Make Your Best: MYB Transcription Factors for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops (Andrea Pitzschke)
Transporters and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (Vandna Rai, Narendra Tuteja, and Teruhiro Takabe)
Potassium and Sodium Transporters: Improving Salinity Tolerance in Plants (Toshio Yamaguchi, Nobuyuki Uozumi, and Tomoaki Horie)
Piriformospora indica, A Root Endophytic Fungus, Enhances Abiotic Stress Tolerance of the Host Plant (Manoj Kumar, Ruby Sharma, Abhimanyu Jogawat, Pratap Singh, Meenakshi Dua, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Dipesh Kumar Trivedi, Narendra Tuteja, Ajit Kumar Verma, Ralf Oelmuller, and Atul Kumar Johri)
The Micromics Revolution: microRNA-Mediated Approaches to Develop Stress Resistant Crops (Camilo López, and Álvaro L Pérez-Quintero)
Transcription Factors: Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants (Tetsuya Ishida, Yuriko Osakabe, and Shuichi Yanagisawa)
Polyamines in Developing Stress Resistant Crops (F Marco, R Alcázar, T Altabella, P Carrasco, Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Narendra Tuteja, and AF Tiburcio)


Volume II
PART III SPECIES SPECIFIC CASE STUDIES
IIIA Graminoids
Wheat: Functional Genomics of Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Paramjit Khurana, Harsh Chauhan, and Neetika Khurana)
Wheat: Mechanisms and Genetic Means for Improving Heat Tolerance (Kuldeep Singh, Vishal Chugh, Gurpreet K. Sahi, and Parveen Chhuneja)
Wheat and Rice Crops: `Omics? Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Suja George, Ajay Parida, and M. S. Swaminathan)
Rice: Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Drought Tolerance (Prashant Vikram, Arvind Kumar, Alok Singh, and Nagendra K. Singh)
Rice: Improving Cold Stress Tolerane (K.M.Gothandam)
Maize: Physiological and Molecular Approaches for Improving Drought Tolerance (Ishwar Singh, T. Nepolean, R. Ambika Rajendran, and Mariko Shono)
Barley: Omics Approaches for Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Nicola Pecchioni, Justyna Anna Milc, Marianna Pasquariello and Enrico Francia)
Sugarcane: Physiological and Molecular Approaches for Improving Abiotic Stresses Tolerance and Sustaining Crop Productivity (Ashok K.Shrivastava, and Sangeeta Srivastava)
Sorghum: Improvement of Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Monika Dalal, M. Karthikeyan, and Viswanathan Chinnusamy)

IIIB Fruid and Vegetable Crops
Vegetable Crops (Chilli Pepper & Onion): Approaches to Improve Crop Productivity and Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Nandkumar Kunchge, Kiran Kumar, Prashant Firke)
Vegetable Crops: Improvement of Tolerance to Adverse Chemical Soil Conditions by Grafting (Giuseppe Colla, Youssef Rouphael, and Mariateresa Cardarelli)
Grain Legumes (Soybean, Chickpea and Peanut): Omics Approaches to Enhance Abiotic Stress Tolerance (D Srinivas Reddy, Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur, Vincent Vadez and Kiran K Sharma)
Fruit Crops: Omic Approaches towards Elucidation of Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Pravendra Nath, Vidhu A. Sane, Mehar Hasan Asif, Aniruddha P. Sane, and Prabodh K. Trivedi)
Cassava Genetic Improvement: Omics Approaches for Facing Global Challenges (Yoshimi Umemura, Rane Jagadish, Motoaki Seki, Yoshinori Utsumi, Jarunya Narangajavana, and Manabu Ishitani)

IIIC Vegetable Crops: Solanaceae
Tomato: Grafting to Improve Salt Tolerance (Paloma Sanchez-Bel, Isabel Egea, Francisco B. Flores, and Maria C. Bolarin)
Tomato: Genomic Approaches for Salt and Drought Stress Tolerance (B. Pineda, J.O. García-Abellán, T. Antón, F. Pérez, E. Moyano, B. García-Sogo, J.F. Campos, T. Angosto, B. Morales, J. Capel, F.B. Flores, V. Moreno, M.C. Bolarin, R. Lozano, and A. Atarés)
Potato: Improving Crop Productivity and Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Gefu Wang-Pruski)
Potato: Production Strategies under Abiotic Stress (JS Minhas)
Tobacco: A Model Plant for Understanding the Mechanism of Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Scott Schaeffer, Tyson Koepke, and Amit Dhingra)

IIID Oil Crops including Brassicas
Sunflower: Improving Crop Productivity and Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Carlos A. Sala, Mariano Bulos, Emiliano Altieri, and María Laura Ramos)
Sesame: Overcoming the Abiotic Stresses in the Queen of Oilseed Crops (Suman Lakhanpaul,Vibhuti Singh, Sachin Kumar, Deepak Bhardwaj, and Kangila Venkataramana Bhat)
Jatropha curcas: Approaches to Engineer Ffatty Acid Synthesis and Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Nalini Eswaran, and T. Sudhakar Johnson)
Brassica Crop Species: Improving Water Use Efficiency - Challenges and Opportunities (CD Palmer, Wilf Keller, Jas Singh, and Raju Datla)
Brassica Crops: Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Current Status and Future Prospects (Stephen J. Robinson, and Isobel A.P. Parkin)
Mustard: Approaches for Crop Improvement and Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Gautam Kumar, Ashwani Pareek, Prabodh C Sharma, and Narendra Tuteja)

IIIE Other Crops
Cotton: Genetic Improvement for Drought Stress Tolerance: Current Status and Research Needs (E AbouKheir, MS Sheshshayee, TG Prasad, and M Udayakumar)
Tea: Present Status and Strategies to Improve Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Sanjay Kumar, Asosii Paul, Amita Bhattacharya, Ram Kumar Sharma, and Paramvir Singh Ahuja)




Dr. Narendra Tuteja did his M.Sc., Ph.D and D.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Lucknow University in 1977, 1982 and 2008, respectively. He is fellow of the Academies of Sciences: FNASc. (2003), FNA (2007), FASc. (2009) and FNESA (2009).
Dr. Tuteja has made major contributions in the field of plant DNA replication and abiotic stress signal transduction, especially in isolating novel DNA/RNA helicases and several components of calcium and G-proteins signaling pathways. Initially he made pioneer contributions in isolation and characterization of large number of helicases from human cells while he was at ICGEB Trieste and published several papers in high impact journals including EMBO J. and Nucleic Acids Research. From India he has cloned the first plant helicase (Plant J. 2000) and presented the first direct evidence for a novel role of a pea DNA helicase (PNAS, USA, 2005) in salinity stress tolerance and pea heterotrimeric G-proteins (Plant J. 2007) in salinity and heat stress tolerance. Dr. Tuteja has reported the first direct evidence in plant that PLC functions as an effector for Ga subunit of G-proteins. All the above work has received extensive coverage in many journals, including Nature Biotechnology, and bulletins all over the world. His group has also discovered novel substrate (pea CBL) for pea CIPK (FEBS J. 2006). He has already developed the salinity tolerant tobacco and rice plants without affecting yield. Recently, few new high salinity stress tolerant genes (e.g. Lectin receptor like kinase, Chlorophyll a/b binding protein and Ribosomal L30E) have been isolated from Pisum sativum and have been shown to confer high salinity stress tolerance in bacteria and plant (Glycoconjugate J. 2010; Plant Signal. Behav. 2010). Recently, very high salinity stress tolerant genes from fungus Piriformospora indica have been isolated and their functional validation in fungus and plants is in progress. Overall, Dr. Tuteja?s research uncovers three new pathways to plant abiotic stress tolerance. His results are an important success and indicate the potential for improving crop production at sub-optimal conditions.

Dr. Sarvajeet Singh Gill did his B.Sc. (1998) from Kanpur University and M.Sc. (2001, Gold Medalist), M. Phil. (2003) and Ph.D (2009) from Aligarh Muslim University.
Dr. Gill has several research papers, review articles and book chapters to his credit in the journals of national and international repute and in edited books. He has co-edited four books namely Sulfur assimilation and Abiotic Stress in Plants; Eutrophication: causes, consequences and control; Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress, and Abiotic Stress Tolerance published by Springer-Verlag (Germany), IK International, New Delhi, and Bentham Science Publishers, respectively. He was awarded Junior Scientist of the year award by National Environmental Science Academy New Delhi in 2008.
Presently with Dr. Tuteja, Dr. Gill is working on heterotrimeric G proteins and plant DNA helicases to uncover the abiotic stress tolerance mechanism in rice. The transgenic plants overexpressing heterotrimeric G proteins and plant DNA helicases may be important for improving crop production at sub-optimal conditions.

Dr. Renu Tuteja did her B.Sc. (1975) and M.Sc. (1977) from Lucknow University and Ph.D. (1983) from Kanpur University.
Dr. Tuteja has made significant contribution in understanding the role of helicases in the DNA and RNA metabolism in malaria parasite and human. She has reported and characterized a number of novel helicases from malaria parasite and human. Recently she has reported the genome wide analysis of helicases from malaria parasite and their comparison with the human host. This work was published in Cell Cycle. She has shown that eukaryotic initiation factor 4A is a dual helicase, essential for the growth and survival of malaria parasite (Journal of Molecular Biology). Her recent work on an RNA helicase from malaria parasite revealed that it is involved in splicing. This work was published as cover image article in Archives in Biochemistry and Biophysics. Her helicase work has received coverage in journals, including a cover image article in Archives in Biochemistry and Biophysics and News and Views article in Cell Cycle. She has characterized novel signal peptidase from malaria parasite and reported its modulation by phosphorylation. Using bioinformatics approach she has reported the existence of all the components of protein translocation pathway and mRNA transport pathway from malaria parasite. Recently she was awarded the Top Cited Paper Award from FEBS J. for one of her article on Malaria published in 2007. Her work has demonstrated novel functions of eIF4A, Ku autoantigen and nucleolin as DNA helicases. On the basis of her interesting discovery of Ku as a helicase, a double-strand break repair model has been proposed in many text books.
Dr. Tuteja became the first Indian Scientist from India to have published in Nature Genetics (13, 1996) and that also cover image article on helicases. Her recent interests are to understand the basic biology of malaria parasite in order to identify novel drug targets. Her research indicates novel ways to control malaria by inhibiting helicases. Till to date she has published a total of 79 papers in journals of international repute.

Prof. Antonio F. Tiburcio (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain; Chair, International Network of Plant Abiotic Stress, cost-inpas. org)

N. Tuteja, Int. Center for Genetic Engin. and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India; S. S. Gill, Int. Center for Genetic Engin. and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India; A. F. Tiburcio, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; R. Tuteja, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India