7. Towards Engineering Smart Transcription Factors for

Enhanced Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants ...........................................187

Syed Sarfraz Hussain, Bushra Rasheed, Abdul Qayyum Rao,

Ahmad Ali Shahid, and Bujun Shi

8. Genetics and Microarray in Environmental Stress Response ................239

Robab Salami, Masoumeh Kordi, Nasser Delangiz,

Behnam Asgari Lajayer, and Tess Astatkie

9. Small RNAs – The Big Players in Developing Salt-Resistant Plants......249

Anup Kumar Sarkar, and Sanjoy Sadhukhan

PART III: Epigenetics and Omics Approaches ...............................................303

10. Genome-Wide Association Studies and Next-Generation

Sequencing in Plant Response to Environmental Stress .........................305

Pooja Saraswat, Hunny Waswani, and Rajiv Ranjan

11. CRISPR/Cas and Its Potentiality as an Effective Tool in

Understanding Environmental Stress Response ......................................329

Deepu Pandita

12. Epigenetics – The Molecular Tool in Understanding

Abiotic Stress Response in Plants..............................................................349

Kakan Ball and Sanjoy Sadhukhan

13. Advances in Proteomics Research in Environmental Stress

Response in Plants.......................................................................................401

Kasinathan Rakkammal, P. S. Jeevan Ram, and Manikandan Ramesh

14. Advances in Metabolomics Research in Environmental

Stress Response in Plants ...........................................................................431

Ankur Singh and Aryadeep Roychoudhury

Index.....................................................................................................................449

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