Salinity Responses and Tolerance in Plants, Volume 2: Exploring RNAi, Genome Editing and Systems Biology

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Soil salinity is a key abiotic-stress and poses serious threats to crop yields and quality of produce. Owing to the underlying complexity, conventional breeding programs have met with limited success. Even genetic engineering approaches, via transferring/overexpressing a single ‘direct action gene’ per event did not yield optimal results. Nevertheless, the biotechnological advents in last decade coupled with the availability of genomic sequences of major crops and model plants have opened new vistas for understanding salinity-responses and improving salinity tolerance in important glycophytic crops. Our goal is to summarize these findings for those who wish to understand and target the molecular mechanisms for producing salt-tolerant and high-yielding crops. Through this 2-volume book series, we critically assess the potential venues for imparting salt stress tolerance to major crops in the post-genomic era. Accordingly, perspectives on improving crop salinity tolerance by targeting the sensory, ion-transport and signaling mechanisms are presented here in volume 1. Volume 2 will focus on the potency of post-genomic era tools that include RNAi, genomic intervention, genome editing and systems biology approaches for producing salt tolerant crops. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Salinity Responses and Adaptive Mechanisms in Halophytes and Their Exploitation for Producing Salinity Tolerant Crops (Karim Ben Hamed, Amira Dabbous, Hassan El Shaer, Chedly Abdely)....Pages 1-19 The Involvement of Different Secondary Metabolites in Salinity Tolerance of Crops (Oksana Sytar, Sonia Mbarki, Marek Zivcak, Marian Brestic)....Pages 21-48 Exploring Halotolerant Rhizomicrobes as a Pool of Potent Genes for Engineering Salt Stress Tolerance in Crops (Neveen B. Talaat)....Pages 49-76 Regulation and Modification of the Epigenome for Enhanced Salinity Tolerance in Crop Plants (Minoru Ueda, Kaori Sako, Motoaki Seki)....Pages 77-91 Manipulating Programmed Cell Death Pathways for Enhancing Salinity Tolerance in Crops (Ahmad Arzani)....Pages 93-118 Helicases and Their Importance in Abiotic Stresses (Zeba I. Seraj, Sabrina M. Elias, Sudip Biswas, Narendra Tuteja)....Pages 119-141 miRNAs: The Game Changer in Producing Salinity Stress-Tolerant Crops (Ratanesh Kumar, Sudhir Kumar, Neeti Sanan-Mishra)....Pages 143-188 Genomic Roadmaps for Augmenting Salinity Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants (P. Suprasanna, S. A. Ghuge, V. Y. Patade, S. J. Mirajkar, G. C. Nikalje)....Pages 189-216 Advances in Genetics and Breeding of Salt Tolerance in Soybean (Huatao Chen, Heng Ye, Tuyen D. Do, Jianfeng Zhou, Babu Valliyodan, Grover J. Shannon et al.)....Pages 217-237 Proteomics Perspectives in Post-Genomic Era for Producing Salinity Stress-Tolerant Crops (Pannaga Krishnamurthy, Lin Qingsong, Prakash P. Kumar)....Pages 239-266 Metabolomics for Crop Improvement Against Salinity Stress (Luisa D’Amelia, Emilia Dell’Aversana, Pasqualina Woodrow, Loredana F. Ciarmiello, Petronia Carillo)....Pages 267-287 Enhancing Crop Productivity in Saline Environment Using Nanobiotechnology (Pradeep Kumar Shukla, Saumya Shukla, Preeti Rajoriya, Pragati Misra)....Pages 289-305 Systems Biology Approach for Elucidation of Plant Responses to Salinity Stress (Amrita Srivastav, Tushar Khare, Vinay Kumar)....Pages 307-326