Mohammad Anwar Hossain Shabir Hussain Wani Soumen Bhattacharjee David J. Burritt Editors Lam-Son Phan Tran Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Volume 1 Physiology and Biochemistry Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 1 Mohammad Anwar Hossain Shabir Hussain Wani Soumen Bhattacharjee David J. Burritt Lam-Son P han Tran Editors Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants, Vol 1 Physiology and Biochemistry Editors Mohammad Anwar Hossain Shabir Hussain Wani Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding Bangladesh Agricultural University Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Mymensingh , Bangladesh Sciences and Technology of Kashmir Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir Soumen Bhattacharjee India Department of Botany University of Burdwan David J. 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Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland Pref ace P lants are subjected to a wide range of abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, pollution, UV radiation, etc. Abiotic stress adversely affects crop production worldwide, causing yield reductions for most major crops. Among the various abiotic stresses, drought is considered to be the most serious. Due to an increasing global population, drought may lead to a serious food shortage by 2050, when the world’s population is expected to reach ten billion. This situation may be worsened due to global climate change that may multiply the frequency, duration, and severity of water defi cit. Hence, there is an urgent need to improve our under- standing of the complex mechanisms associated with drought tolerance and to develop elite crop varieties that are more resilient to drought without affecting other agronomic and quality parameters. Identifi cation of novel genes responsible for drought tolerance in crop plants will contribute to our understanding of the molecu- lar mechanisms behind drought tolerance. The discovery of novel genes, the analy- sis of their expression patterns in response to drought, and the determination of their potential functions in drought adaptation will provide the basis for effective breed- ing strategies to enhance crop drought tolerance. The general effects of drought on plant growth are well known, but the effects of water defi cit at the biochemical and molecular levels are not well understood. Although we do not have a complete understanding of the biological mechanisms associated with tolerance to drought, tolerance can to some extent be explained on the basis of ion homeostasis mediated by stress adaptation effectors, toxic radical scavenging, osmolyte biosynthesis, water transport, and the coordination of long-distance signaling mechanisms. Complete elucidation of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms by which plants respond to drought, including signal perception and transduction, as well as adaptation, is still a challenge for plant biologists. I n this book we present a collection of 21 chapters written by recognized experts in the fi eld of plant drought responses, tolerance, and crop improvement. This volume deals with an array of topics in the broad area of drought responses and tolerance in plants and focuses on plant “physiology and biochemistry.” The information pre- sented in this book demonstrates how plants respond to drought and will ultimately lead to both conventional and biotechnological approaches for improvement of crop v vi Preface productivity under drought stress and for sustainable agricultural production. We trust that the information covered in this volume will be useful in building strategies to counter the negative impacts of drought. Hopefully this volume will serve as a major source of information and knowledge to graduate and postgraduate students and researchers investigating abiotic stresses. We also believe that it will be of inter- est to a wide range of plant scientists, including agronomists, physiologists, biotech- nologists, molecular biologists and plant breeders who have concerns about the drought responses of plants and improving the drought tolerance of crop plants. As editors of this volume, we are grateful to the authors of various chapters of this book for writing their chapters meticulously and enabling us to produce this volume in time. We would also like to extend our thanks to Dr. Kenneth Teng and the editorial staff of Springer, New York, who enabled us to initiate this book proj- ect. Finally, our special thanks to Springer, Switzerland, for publishing this volume. We fervently believe that the information covered in this book will make a sound contribution to this fascinating area of research. Mymensingh, Bangladesh Mohammad Anwar Hossain Srinagar, Kashmir, India Shabir Hussain Wani West Bengal, India Soumen Bhattacharjee Dunedin, New Zealand David J. Burritt Yokohama, Japan Lam-Son Phan Tran Contents 1 Drought Stress in Plants: Causes, Consequences, and Tolerance . . . . . . 1 Seyed Yahya Salehi-Lisar and Hamideh Bakhshayeshan-Agdam 2 Drought Stress Memory and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants: Biochemical and Molecular Basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Xiangnan Li and Fulai Liu 3 Mechanisms of Hormone Regulation for Drought Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Patrick Burgess and Bingru Huang 4 Chemical Priming-Induced Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . 77 Emily Merewitz 5 Osmotic Adjustment and Plant Adaptation to Drought Stress . . . . . . 105 Marek Zivcak , Marian Brestic , and Oksana Sytar 6 Interplay Among Glutathione, Salicylic Acid and Ethylene to Combat Environmental Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Sharmila Chattopadhyay 7 Function of Heat-Shock Proteins in Drought Tolerance Regulation of Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Sruthy Maria Augustine 8 Ascorbate–Glutathione Cycle: Controlling the Redox Environment for Drought Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Lyuben Zagorchev , Denitsa Teofanova , and Mariela Odjakova 9 Sulfur Metabolism and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . . . . 227 Walid Abuelsoud , Felix Hirschmann , and Jutta Papenbrock 10 Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide and Drought Stress on Agricultural Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Jong Ahn Chun , Sanai Li , and Qingguo Wang vii viii Contents 11 Drought Stress Tolerance in Relation to Polyamine Metabolism in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Miren Sequera-Mutiozabal , Antonio F. T iburcio , and Rubén Alcázar 12 Plant–Rhizobacteria Interaction and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Cohen Ana Carmen , Piccoli Patricia , Bottini Rubén , and Salomon María Victoria 13 Signaling Role of ROS in Modulating Drought Stress Tolerance . . . . . 309 Ana Laura Furlan , Eliana Bianucci , and Stella Castro 14 Improving Crop Yield Under Drought Stress Through Physiological Breeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331 Veena Pandey and Alok Shukla 15 Photosynthesis, Antioxidant Protection, and Drought Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 Irada M. Huseynova , Samira M. Rustamova , Durna R. Aliyeva , Hasan G. Babayev , and Jalal A. Aliyev 16 Glyoxalase Pathway and Drought Stress Tolerance in Plants . . . . . . . 379 Mohammad Rokebul Hasan , Ajit Ghosh , Charanpreet Kaur , Ashwani Pareek , and Sneh Lata Singla-Pareek 17 Drought Tolerant Wild Species are the Important Sources of Genes and Molecular Mechanisms Studies: Implication for Developing Drought Tolerant Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401 Imrul Mosaddek Ahmed , Umme Aktari Nadira , Guoping P. Zhang , and Feibo B. Wu 18 Tailored Responses to Simultaneous Drought Stress and Pathogen Infection in Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427 Aanchal Choudhary , Prachi Pandey , and Muthappa Senthil-Kumar 19 Manipulation of Programmed Cell Death Pathways Enhances Osmotic Stress Tolerance in Plants: Physiological and Molecular Insights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439 Thi My Linh Hoang , Brett Williams , and Sagadevan G. Mundree 20 Antioxidant Signaling and Redox Regulation in Drought- and Salinity-Stressed Plants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Ananya Chakrabarty , Manashi Aditya , Nivedita Dey , Nabanita B anik , and Soumen Bhattacharjee 21 Determination of Compositional Principles for Herbaceous Plantings in Dry Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499 Dagmar Hillová Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513 Contributors Walid Abuelsoud Institute of Botany, Leibniz University Hannover , Hannover , Germany Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University , Giza , Egypt Manashi Aditya P lant Physiology and Biochemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, U GC Centre for Advanced Study, The University of Burdwan , Burdwan , West Bengal , India Imrul Mosaddek Ahmed Department of Agronomy , College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University , Hangzhou , China Rubén Alcázar Department of Natural Products, Plant Biology and Soil Science, Faculty of Pharmacy , University of Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain Durna R. Aliyeva D epartment of Fundamental Problems of Biological Productivity, I nstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences , Baku , Azerbaijan Jalal A. Aliyev Department of Fundamental Problems of Biological Productivity , I nstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences , Baku , Azerbaijan Department of Plant Physiology and Biotechnology , Research Institute of Crop Husbandry, Ministry of Agriculture of Azerbaijan Republic , Baku , Azerbaijan Sruthy Maria Augustine Sugarcane Breeding Institute (ICAR) , Coimbatore , India Hasan G. Babayev Department of Fundamental Problems of Biological Productivity , Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences , Baku , Azerbaijan Hamideh Bakhshayeshan-Agdam Department of Plant Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences , University of Tabriz , Tabriz , Iran ix