Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology

23 Production of Phytomedicinal Chemicals by Plants 485

Donald P. Briskin

Part V Plant Growth Regulators: The Natural Hormones (Growth Promoters and Inhibitors)
and Plant Genes

24 Plant Growth Hormones: Growth Promoters and Inhibitors 501
Syed Shamshad Mehdi Naqvi

25 The Activation Sequence-1 Cognate Promoter Elements Play Critical Roles in the

Activation of Defense-Related Genes in Higher Plants 527

Chengbin Xiang

26 Multilevel Regulation of Glutathione Homeostasis in Higher Plants 539

Chengbin Xiang and David J. Oliver

27 Genes Associated with Orchid Flower 549

Soek Ying Neo and Kwok Ki Ho

Part VI Physiological Responses of Plants/Crops Under Stressful (Salt, Drought, and Other
Environmental Stresses) Conditions

28 Biology and Physiology of Saline Plants 563

David N. Sen, Sher Mohammed, and Pawan K. Kasera

29 Role of Physiology in Improving Crop Adaptation to Abiotic Stresses in the Tropics:

The Case of Common Bean and Tropical Forages 583

Idupulapati Madhusudana Rao

30 Adaptive Components of Salt Tolerance 615

James W. O’Leary

31 Growth and Physiological Adaptations of Grasses to Salinity Stress 623

Kenneth B. Marcum

32 Physiological Mechanisms of Nitrogen Absorption and Assimilation in Plants Under

Stressful Conditions 637

R. S. Dubey and Mohammad Pessarakli

33 Induction of Proteins in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses 657

Timothy S. Artlip and Michael E. Wisniewski

34 Physiological Responses of Cotton (Gossypium hirsutumL.) to Salt Stress 681

Mohammad Pessarakli

35 Calcium as a Messenger in Stress Signal Transduction 697
A. S. N. Reddy and Vaka Subba Reddy

36 Regulation of Gene Expression During Abiotic Stresses and the Role of the Plant
Hormone Abscisic Acid 735
Elizabeth A. Bray

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