Completely revised and updated to reflect recent advances in the field, the Second Edition of this comprehensive reference addresses issues and concerns related to plant and crop stress-detailing interrelated topics never before combined in a single text.With 56 chapters-23 more than the First Edition-the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Second Edition includes new information onpH stresswater-deficit conditionstemperature stresscarotenoids and stresslight stressoxidative damage to proteinspollution stressUV-B induced stressagrichemical stressabiotic stress toleranceWritten by over 110 renowned scientists, specialists, and researchers in the field from over 25 countries, the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Second Editiondiscusses soil salinity and sodicity problems and their effects on crop growthcovers plants and crops with different degrees of salt tolerance as well as their response to salt, drought, temperature/heat, pollution, agrichemical, and other stressesintroduces plants and crops suitable for cultivation under stressful conditionspresents the most recent information on cellular and microbiological aspects of plants/crops under stressful conditionsexplores the beneficial effects of stress on plants and cropsand more!