This book aims to emphasize on basic concepts of plant growth, acclimation, and their adaptation to environment in changing conditions. The book will provide an updated perspective on the physical/mechanical stress, including biotic and abiotic stress, and induced responses in higher plants. This volume will also include a view of the stress recognition by plants and the cell signaling events triggered as a consequence, and will also address an appraisal of the plant oxidative stress metabolism under those circumstances. The book will explore how soil minerals and microbes are affecting plant growth, including elicitors and novel compounds which stimulate plant growth and the defence mechanisms issued by plants. This volume will also cover an overview on the enzymes which may regulate plant growth, as well as the evidences of the involvement of phytohormones and other signalling molecules in plant growth.

Chapter 1. Plant stress, acclimation, and adaptation: A review (Gupta)

Chapter 2. Insights into role of invisible partners in plant growth and development (Sathishkumar)
Chapter 3. How do plants sense, respond and memorize heat stimuli? (Suzuki)
Chapter 4. From beneficial bacteria to microbial derived elicitors: biotechnological applications to improve fruit quality (Solano)
Chapter 5. Come hell or high water: breeding profile of eucalyptus tolerance to abiotic stress focusing water deficit (Toledo Picoli)
Chapter 6. Organic fertilization of fruit trees as an alternative to mineral fertilizers: effect on plant growth, yield, fruit quality and environment (Baldi)
Chapter 7. Hydrogen peroxide concentration as an indicator of abiotic oxidative stress response of invasive macophyte species Egeria densa (Asaeda)
Chapter 8. Opportunities of revegetation and bioenergy production in marginal areas
Chapter 9. Biochar behaviour and the influence of soil microbial community (Anyanwu)
Chapter 10. New insights into the functional role of nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species in plant response to biotic and abiotic stress conditions (Barroso)
Chapter 11. Selenium transport, accumulation and toxicity in plants  (Shin)
Chapter 12. Selenium in algae: Bioaccumulation and toxicity (Maronic).