Demand for agricultural crops and nutritional requirement continues to escalate in response to increasing population. Also, climate change exerts adverse effects on agriculture crop productivity. Plant researchers have, therefore, focused to identify the scientific approaches that minimize the negative impacts of climate change on agricultural crops. Thus, it is the need of the hour to expedite the process for improving stress tolerance mechanisms in agricultural crops against various environmental factors, in order to fulfil the world's food demand. Among the various applied approaches, the application of phytohormones has gained significant attention in inducing stress tolerance mechanisms.Jasmonates are phytohormones with ubiquitous distribution among plants and generally considered to modulate many physiological events in higher plants such as defence responses, flowering and senescence. Also, jasmonates mediate plant responses to many biotic and abiotic stresses by triggering atranscriptional reprogramming that allows cells to cope with pathogens and stresses. Likewise, salicylates are important signal molecules for modulating plant responses to environmental stresses. Salicylic acid influences a range of diverse processes in plants, including seed germination, stomatal closure, ion uptake and transport, membrane permeability and photosynthetic and growth rate.

Understanding the significant roles of these phytohormones in plant biology and from agriculture point of view, the current subject has recently attracted the attention of scientists from across the globe. Therefore, we bring forth a comprehensive book "Jasmonates and Salicylates Signalling in Plants" highlighting the various prospects involved in the current scenario. The book comprises chapters from diverse areas dealing with biotechnology, molecular biology, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, etc. We are hopeful that this comprehensive book furnishes the requisite of all those who are working or have interest in this topic.

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Tariq Aftab received his Ph.D. in the Department of Botany at Aligarh Muslim University, India, and is currently Assistant Professor there. He is Recipient of a prestigious Leibniz-DAAD fellowship from Germany, Raman Fellowship from the Government of India, and Young Scientist Awards from the State Government of Uttar Pradesh (India) and Government of India. After completing his doctorate, he has worked as Research Fellow at National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi, and as Postdoctoral Fellow at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. Dr. Aftab also worked as Visiting Scientist at Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, and in the Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, USA. He is a member of various scientific associations from India and abroad. He has edited 10 books with international publishers, including Elsevier Inc., Springer Nature and CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), co-authored several book chapters and published over 65 research articles in peer-reviewed international journals. His research interests include physiological, proteomic and molecular studies on medicinal and crop plants.

Mohammad Yusuf is working as a Lecturer in the Department of Biology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE. Mohammad received his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and M.Sc. in Botany (Plant Physiology) from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He has worked as SERB-Young Scientist on Government of India funded project. He has been awarded with the prestigious Dr. D.S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of India and CST-UP Young Scientist from the state Government of Uttar Pradesh (India). He has also been invited to present his work in Gordon Research Conference at Switzerland and Huazhong Agricultural University (HAU), Wuhan, China. Mohammad's research contribution includes more than 50 research articles in the international journals of repute and a book. His Google Scholar citations have crossed 2500 with 26 h-index. He is an active reviewer of various reputed journals from Elsevier and Springer. Currently, he is exploring phytohormone-mediated abiotic stress tolerance mechanism in crop plants through proline metabolism.

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Chapter 01Jasmonates and Salicylates: Mechanisms, Transport and Signalling during Abiotic Stress in PlantsAkbar Hossain1,*, Zahoor Ahmad2, Debjyoti Moulik3, Sagar Maitra4, Preetha Bhadra5, Adeel Ahmad6, Sourav Garai7, Mousumi Mondal7, Anirban Roy8, Ayman El Sabagh9,10, Tariq Aftab11

Chapter 02Salicylic acid and jasmonic acid in generating salt stress tolerant plantsAnkur Singh, Aryadeep Roychoudhury*

Chapter 03Role of Jasmonic and Salicylic acid signaling in plants under UV-B stressKrishna Kumar Choudhary1, Suruchi Singh2, Madhoolika Agrawal3 and S. B. Agrawal3
Chapter 04Plant Responses to Exogenous Salicylic and Jasmonic Acids under Drought StressKazem Ghassemi-Golezani1, Salar Farhangi-Abriz2

Chapter 05Role of jasmonic acid and salicylic acid signaling in secondary metabolite production Samapika Nandy, Tuylee Das, Abhijit Dey*

Chapter 06Role of jasmonates and salicylates in plant allelopathyAnam Asif1, Mohammad Affan Baig2*, M. Badruzzaman Siddiqui1

Chapter 07Jasmonate: A versatile messenger in plantsPriyanka Singh, Yamshi Arif, Husna Siddiqui and Shamsul Hayat*

Chapter 08The crucial role of jasmonates in enhancing heavy metals tolerance in plantsAli Raza1*, Sidra Charagh2, Shiva Najafi Kakavand3,4, Manzer H. Siddiqui5

Chapter 09Jasmonates: The Fine-Tuning Bio-Regulators and their Crosstalk with Plant Reproductive BiologyDeepu Pandita*

Chapter 10Role of Jasmonates in pathogenesis and crosstalk of Jasmonates with other hormonesShreshtha Yadav1, Simran1, Nisha Sella1, Shabir A. Rather2*

Chapter 11Methyl Jasmonate and its Application for Improving Postharvest Quality of Fruits Deep Lata1, Anusree Anand1, Burhan Ozturk2, Riadh Ilahy3 , Md. Shamsher Ahmad4, and Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui4
Chapter 12Salicylic acid signalling under stress conditions in plantsTibor Janda, Kinga O. Gondor, Magda Pál, Gabriella Szalai
Chapter 13Function of Mediator in regulating salicylic acid mediated signaling and responses in plantsShubham Kumar Sinha, Koppolu Raja Rajesh Kumar
Chapter 14The Hidden Pathways Affecting Salicylic Acid Signaling in PlantsBahareh Hekmatdoust Tabrizi1, Neda Fattahi1, Rachel Backer2, Zahra Dehghanian3, Khosro Balilashaki4, Behnam Asgari Lajayer5, and Tess Astatkie6
Chapter 15Salicylic Acid (SA): Its interaction with different molecules in the stress tolerance signaling pathwaysAparna Pandey1, Nidhi Verma1, Shikha Singh1, Gausiya Bashri2 and Sheo Mohan Prasad1*