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Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction to Plant Stresses; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Definitions of Plant Stress; 1.3 Types of Plant Stresses; 1.3.1 Biotic Stress; 1.3.2 Abiotic Stress; 1.4 Plant Stress Factors; 1.4.1 Drought; 1.4.2 Temperature; 1.4.3 Salinity; 1.4.4 Hypoxia and Anoxia; 1.4.5 Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS); 1.4.6 Light; 1.4.7 Wounds; 1.4.8 Pathogens; 1.4.9 Competition; 1.5 Plant Stress Response Phases; 1.5.1 Alarm Phase; 1.5.2 Resistance Phase; 1.5.3 Exhaustion Phase; 1.5.4 Regeneration Phase; 1.6 Plant Stress Measurement; 1.7 Plant Stress and Evolution.

1.8 Interaction Between Different StressesReferences; Chapter 2: Omics and System Biology Approaches in Plant Stress Research; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Genomics; 2.3 Transcriptomics; 2.4 Proteomics; 2.5 Proteogenomics; 2.6 Metabolomics; 2.7 Bioinformatics; 2.7.1 Data Handling and Analysis; 2.7.2 Data and Results Visualization; 2.7.3 Data and Results Storage and Maintenance; References; Chapter 3: Omics Approaches to Understand Biotic Stresses: A Case Study on Plant Parasitic Nematodes; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Genomics and Transcriptomics of Microbial Pathogens.

3.1.2 Proteomics and Metabolomics of Microbial Pathogens3.2 A Case Study on Plant Parasitic Nematodes; 3.3 Importance of Plant-Parasitic Nematodes; 3.4 Omics Studies Related to Plant Parasitic Nematodes; 3.4.1 Genomics of Nematode; 3.4.2 Nematode Transcriptomics Analysis; 3.4.3 Proteomics of Plant Parasitic Nematodes; 3.4.4 Bioinformatics and Web-Based Analysis Tools; References; Chapter 4: Functional Genomics Combined with Other Omics Approaches for Better Understanding Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants; 4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Conceptual Framework for Employing Omics Technologies to Understand the Abiotic Stress Tolerance4.3 Gene Expression and Regulatory Network in Response to Abiotic Stress; 4.3.1 DNA Microarray; 4.3.2 Omics Technologies: the Recent Emerging Tools; 4.4 Forward Genetics Strategies; 4.4.1 Mutagenesis; 4.4.2 T-DNA; 4.4.3 QTL Mapping; 4.5 Reverse Genetics Strategies; 4.5.1 Overexpression; 4.5.2 RNAi; 4.5.3 VIGS; 4.5.4 Yeast Complementation Assays; 4.6 Ionomics as a Powerful Tool for Abiotic Stress Exploration; 4.7 Metabolomics to Discover Abiotic Stress Related Phytochemicals; References.

Providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research on Omics applications in plant sciences field, "Plant Stress Tolerance" focuses on different approaches towards plant stress tolerance including both biotic stresses and abiotic stresses. This book outlines the challenges facing this area of research, with solid, up-to-date information for graduate students, academic scientists and researchers on using the recent advances of Omics technologies on plant stresses.