Table of Contents

Volume 1

Section I Reactive oxygen species metabolism and antioxidant defense

1. Regulated Suicide for Survival: Towards Programmed Cell Death during Reactive Species Mediated-Oxidative Stress of Plant Cells
Dibyendu Talukdar

2. Iron and its catalytic properties on radical generation:  Role of chelators on the Labile Iron Pool (LIP)
Elizabeth Robello, Andrea Galatro, Susana Puntarulo

3. Superoxide Dismutases (SODs) and their Role in Regulating Abiotic Stress induced Oxidative Stress in Plants
Panchanand Mishra and Pallavi Sharma

4. The Role of Ascorbate-Glutathione Pathway in Reactive Oxygen Species Balance under Abiotic Stresses
Liudmyla O. Sakhno, Alla I. Yemets, and Yaroslav B. Blume

5. Oxidative stress and antioxidant defense under combined waterlogging and salinity stresses
Savita Duhan, Anita Kumari, Manohar Lal and Sunita Sheokand

6. Role of Polyamines in Protecting Plants from Oxidative Stress
Pooja, Vinod Goyal, Sarita Devi and Renu Munjal

7. Role of Glutathione in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Aditya Banerjee, Aryadeep Roychoudhury

8. Molecular approaches in enhancing antioxidant defence in plants
Kanika Khanna, Neha Handa, Poonam Yadav, Vandana Gautam, Vinod Kumar, Puja Ohri, Renu Bhardwaj

9. Omics in oxidative stress tolerance in crops
Ceyhun kayihan, Füsun Eyidoğan

10. Role of reactive oxygen species signaling in plant growth and development
Neveen B. Talaat

11. Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense in Germinating Seeds: A Q&A Session
Andrea Pagano, Chiara Forti, Carla Gualtieri, Alma Balestrazzi, Anca Macovei

12. Oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in plants under salinity
Caparrós, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, and María Teresa Lao

13. ROS modulation in crop plants under drought stress
Giti Verma, Dipali Srivastava, Poonam Tiwari, and Debasis Chakrabarty

14. Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense in Plants under High Temperature
Pooja and Renu Munjal

15. Oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in plants exposed to metal/metalloid toxicity
Muhammad Arif Ali,  Shah Fahad, Idrees Haider, Niaz Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Arshad

16. Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Defense in Plants Exposed To Ultraviolet Radiation
Jainendra Pathak, Rajneesh, Haseen Ahmed, Deepak K. Singh, Prashant R. Singh, Deepak Kumar, Vinod K. Kannaujiya, Shailendra P. Singh and Rajeshwar P. Sinha

17. Methods/protocols for determination of oxidative stress in crop plants
Venkidasamy Baskar, Mahima Karthikeyan and Sathishkumar Ramalingam

18. Does seed priming play a role in regulating reactive oxygen species under saline conditions?
Mohamed Magdy F. Mansour, Esmat Farouk Ali, Karima Hamid A. Salama

19. Computer-assisted image analysis of the distribution and intensity of reactive oxygen species accumulation in plant leaves
Joanna Sekulska-Nalewajko, Jarosław Gocławski, Elżbieta Kuźniak

Section-II: Reactive nitrogen species metabolism and signalling

20. Role of nitric oxide in physiological and stress responses of plants under darkness
Péter Poór, Zalán Czékus, Attila Ördög

21. Nitric oxide and phytohormones cross-talk during abiotic stresses responses in plants
Tariq Shah, Sumbal Wahid, Muhammad Ilyas, Mirza Hasanuzzaman

22. The role of nitric oxide in the antioxidant defense of plants exposed to UV-B radiation
Raúl Cassia, Melina Amenta, María Belén Fernández, Macarena Nocioni, and Valeria Dávila

23. Reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide production, regulation and function during defence response
Eliana Molina-Moya, Laura C. Terrón-Camero, Leyre Pescador-Azofra, Luisa M. Sandalio, María C. Romero-Puertas

24. Role of nitric oxide in growth regulation and re-orientation of pollen tubes
Tariq Shah, Mehmood Ali Noor and Mirza Hasanuzzaman

25. Nitric oxide (NO)-Mediated Plant Stress Signaling
L.V. Dubovskaya and Y.S. Bakakina

26. S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) and plant stress responses
Anjali Khajuria, Shagun Bali, Priyanka Sharma, Ravinderjit Kaur, Shivam Jasrotia, Poonam Saini, Puja Ohri and Renu Bhardwaj

Volume 2 

Section-III: Reactive sulfur species metabolism and signaling

27. Hydrogen sulfide in guard cell signaling
Carlos García-Mata

28. Hydrogen sulfide: a new gasotransmitter in plant defenses
Yanjie Zhang, Yanxi Pei, and Guangdong Yang

29. Interplay between Hydrogen Sulfide and Calcium Signaling in Plant Abiotic Stress Response and Adaptation
Zhong-Guang Li

30. Reactive Sulfur species-Key regulators of abiotic stress tolerance in plants
Fahim Nawaz, Sadia Majeed, Khawaja Shafique Ahmad, Muhammad Aqib, Muhammad Asif Shehzad, Muhammad Aurangzaib and Muhammad Shahbaz

31. Reactive Sulfur Species: A new player in plant physiology?
Martin Clemens Gruhlke

32. Role of reactive sulfur species in the oxidative metabolism in plants
Muhammad Ija, Qasim Ali, Shah Fahad, Sana Ashraf, Muhammad Shahid and Shakeel Ahmad

33. Hydrogen Sulfide in Plant Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Progress and Perspectives
Parankusam Santisree, Srivani  S  Adimulam, Pradeepreddy Bommineni, Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur and Kiran K. Sharma

Section-IV: Crosstalk among reactive oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur species

34. Reactive oxygen species, reactive nitrogen species and oxidative metabolism under waterlogging stress
Manohar Lal, Anita Kumari, Pooja Dhansu and Sunita Sheokand

35. Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species in Stress-Induced Programmed Death of Plant Cultured Cells
Massimo Malerba, and  Raffaella Cerana

36. Finding a Place for NO in Everyday Plant Life
Svetlana Batasheva, Farit Abdrakhimov, Guzel Akhtyamova, Larisa Khamidullina, Vladimir Chikov

37. H2O2, NO and H2S: Tailoring in suiting plants against abiotic stresses
Cristiane J. da-Silva, Ana Claudia Rodrigues, Luzia V. Modolo

38. Cross talk among reactive oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur during abiotic stress in plants
Parminder Kaur, Neha Handa, Vinod Verma, Palak Bakshi, Rashami Kalia, Shelja Sareen, Avinash Nagpal, Adarsh Pal Vig, Bilal Ahmad Mir and Renu Bhardwaj

39. Emerging technologies for enhancing ROS/RNS homeostasis
AllAlla I. Yemets, Yuriy V. Karpets, Yuriy E. Kolupaev, and Yaroslav B. Blume

40. Compartmentalization of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide production in plant cells
Martina Janků, Tereza Tichá, Lenka Luhová, Marek Petřivalský

About the Author

About the Editors

Mirza Hasanuzzaman, is Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Vasileios Fotopoulos, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology & Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus.

Kamrun Nahar, is Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Botany, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Masayuki Fujita, is Professor at the Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Japan.