The book deals with how different levels of soil salinity have become an agricultural concern severely affecting different molecular processes involved in carbon and nitrogen assimilation in plants and the different enzyme system associated with these processes yield. High salinity stress leads to a series of biochemical and molecular changes in plants and adversely affect their growth, development and productivity. High salinity stress also induces biosynthesis of various protein molecules of low molecular weight, stress proteins, and the book also look into these protein molecules and effects of salinity levels on them. Dr. Bhattacharya has also discussed the use different modern molecular tools, like metabolomics, proteomics, and enzyme responses for assessing the changes in plants at molecular levels under soil salinity stress. Strategies to overcome the effects of soil salinity stress and increase crop productivity through different approaches of molecular breeding and other developing methods using physiological traits as selection criteria.

The in-depth description of the major physiological issues in plants under soil salinity stress that are presented in this book will help plant breeders tailor crops for desirable physiological survival traits in the face of increasing soil salinity. This book is an impactful addition to the library of any faculty members, researchers, agricultural policy planner, postgraduate, or students studying plant physiology, and other subjects of crop husbandry.

• This book dealt with consequences of soil salinity stress in plants at molecular levels. The impact of soil salinity stress on major physiological processes at molecular levels,
• The book looks in depth at major physiological processes at molecular levels, including photosynthetic pigments, carbon assimilation, nitrogen assimilation, enzyme systems involved under these assimilatory processes, and provide the ways and means to promote crop productivity under such situation.
• Provide information for application for today and future research.

Amitav Bhattacharya, is Ex Principal Scientist (Plant Physiology), Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR), Kanpur, India. He earned his master’s degree in Botany with specialization in Plant Physiology from Allahabad University. He got his Doctorate Degree in Plant Physiology from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India. He served at the Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India for more than 35 years and retired as Principal Scientist, and during the service period he was actively engaged in Physiological research on grain legumes both in field and in laboratory. He also looked after the All India Coordinated Physiological Research Programme being conducted under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India on various grain legume crops at different centers, spread across India. He has already published several research articles, book chapters as well as books through Indian as well as through International Publishers.