Ion Transporters The Clue to Salt Tolerance and Adaptation in Plants

1. The Role of Na⁺ and K⁺ Transporters in Salt Stress Adaptation in Glycophytes

Anup Kumar Sarkar and Sanjoy Sadhukhan

2. Regulation of Sodium and Potassium Transport in Plants: The Key for Ion Homeostasis during Salt Stress

Ankur Singh and Aryadeep Roychoudhury

3. Chloride Ion Channels: The Underdogs in Defining Salinity Stress Tolerance in Plants

Rajat P. Singh, Arushi Khandelwal, Devendra Arya, Anuradha Patel, and Akhilesh Kumar

4. Transcription Factors and Ion Transporters Control the Salinity Stress Response

Bhaben Chowardhara, Bedabrata Saha, Jay Prakash Awasthi, Sourav Garai, and Debojyoti Moulick

5. Root Specific Interaction of Phytohormones and Salt Responsive Genes Under Salinity Stress

Anulina Manna, Alokesh Roy, and Debojyoti Moulick 

6. The Salt Glands of Poaceae: Revealing the Mysteries of Salt Glands, Structural and Functional Attributes 

Vidya Patil-Patankar and Prajakta Kulkarni 

7. Recretohalophytes as Natural Models for Salinity Adaptation and Stress Management

Tanushree Dutta, Nitu Gautam, Umesh Goutam, and Sarvjeet Kukreja

8. Salt Secretion Mechanisms in Xero-Halophytes: Insights and Perspectives 

Roohi Sharma, Amandeep Singh, Manu Sharma, Nahida Rehman Mir, Alisha Sharma, Anchita Singh, Puja Ohri, Renu Bhardwaj, and Nitika Kapoor

9. Gene Mediated Salt Extrusion of Recretohalophytes: Traits Promoting Environmental Stress Tolerance

Darshini Subramanian, Ram Baran Singh, and Gopinath Ponnusamy Manogaran

10. Functional Traits of Mangroves and Mangrove Associate Species for Maintaining Ionic Homeostasis

Subrata Mondal and Saikat Naskar

11. Harnessing Ion Transporters in Breeding Strategies for Salt-Tolerant Crops

Punathil Ellath Rajasekharan, Ravi Gowthami, Subhash Chander, Ganjalagatta Dasaiah Harish, and Gudihalli Muninarayanappa Puneeth

12. Molecular and Breeding Techniques to Manipulate Transporter Genes in Order to Produce Salt-tolerant Agricultural Plants

Sarvjeet Kukreja, Nidhi Selwal, Umesh Goutam, and Nitu Gautam

13. Modern Strategies for the Development of Salt-resilient Crops

Nadia Iqbal, Samia Fatima, Muhammad Zaheer Ahmed, Muhammad Omar Khan, Ghulam Raza, Zhengyi Wei, and Niaz Ahmad 

14. The Future of Salt-tolerant Crops: Gene Editing and Biotechnological Pathways

Umesh Kumar, Prince Kumar Singh, Indrajeet Kumar, Akanksha Dwivedi, Priyanka Singh, Saumya Mishra, Avanish Prajapati, and Rajesh Kumar Sharma

15. Insights into Conventional and Molecular Techniques for the Development of Salt-Tolerant Plants

Krishna Desai and Nainesh R. Modi

16. Advancing Plant Resilience to Salinity through Gene Editing and Omics Innovations

Latif Ahmad Peer, Bilal Ahmad Mir, and Tariq Bashir Rather

17. Recent Trends in Omics and Biotechnological Approaches to Design Salt-tolerant Crops

Shivam Kumar, Akhil Singh, Payal, Nand Lal, and Rachapudi V. Sreeharsha

18. Advances in Genome Editing and Biotechnological Approaches for Designing Salt Tolerance in Crop Species 

Neelakanta Sarvashiva Kiran, Chandrashekar Yashaswini, Chethana CK, and Ram Baran Singh

Biography

Swarnendu Roy works as an Assistant Professor at the University of North Bengal, Siliguri, India. He has more than 14 years of teaching experience. He has received the University Gold Medal for securing the first position at B.Sc. and the University Silver medal for securing the second position at M.Sc. level. He received the Post-Graduate Merit Scholarship for University Rank Holder, which was awarded by the Ministry of HRD and UGC (2006–2008), Government of India. He also received the CSIR Junior Research Fellowship, which was awarded by CSIR-UGC (2008). He is actively engaged in research topics encompassing plant stress management by engineered nanoparticles and the synthesis of starch-based biofilms and edible coatings. He has published more than 50 articles with high-impact factors in reputed journals, such as Water Research and Scientific Reports, among many others. He has recently edited two books and has also published several book chapters in edited volumes to date. He is a life member of prestigious societies like “The Indian Science Congress Association”; “Association of Food Scientists and Technologists (India)” and “Society of Plant Research (India)”.

Khalid Rehman Hakeem is presently working as a Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. After completing his PhD (Botany; specialization in Plant Ecophysiology and Molecular Biology) from Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2011, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Kashmir, Srinagar for a short period. Later he joined Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia and worked there as a Post Doctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Prof.) from 2013-2016 respectively. He joined King Abdulaziz University in August 2016 and was promoted to professorship recently. He has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in Plant Eco-Physiology, Biotechnology & Molecular biology, Medicinal plant research, Plant-Microbe-soil interactions as well as in Environmental studies. He is the recipient of several fellowships at both national and international levels, also he has served as a Visiting Scientist at Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey as well as at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Currently, he is involved with a number of international research projects with different government organizations. So far, he has authored and edited more than 75 books with international publishers and has to his credit 160 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals and 65 book chapters in edited volumes with international publishers. At present, he is serving as the Editorial board member and reviewer of several high impact international scientific journals.

Piyush Mathur is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has been teaching for the past 6 years and has taught both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has done his PhD.in Botany with a specialization in Mycology and Plant Pathology from Delhi University. Presently, he is supervising four PhD research scholars who are working on microbial diversity, bioprospecting, and plant disease management. He has published several articles and papers in well-known international journals of good repute. He has also contributed articles as book chapters in International and National books. He is serving as a member of the editorial board of BMC Plant Biology. Dr. Mathur is an active member of the Society of Rapeseed Mustard Research (SRMR), Bharatpur, and Delhi University Botanical Society (DUBS) Delhi, India and Indian Phytopathological Society, New Delhi, India.