**Meet the editor**

Violeta Andjelkovic obtained her PhD degree in Agronomy in the fields of genetics and plant breeding. She is the head of maize gene bank and a manager of the European maize database at the Maize Research Institute, Zemun Polje, Serbia. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany, she worked on the expression analysis of genes induced by

abiotic stresses in maize. She has coauthored more than 200 publications and participated in numerous national and bilateral projects. Her actual research interest focuses on physiological and molecular aspects of abiotic stress, particularly drought, and on the improvement of drought tolerance and grain quality in maize by the utilization of genetic resources.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**in Plants 3** Violeta Andjelkovic

**Section 2 Plant Tolerance to Abiotic Stress 7**

Phetole Mangena

**Molecular Aspects 69**

**Genetics 33**

Lalić

Zapata

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Climate Changes and Abiotic Stress**

Chapter 2 **Water Stress: Morphological and Anatomical Changes in**

Chapter 3 **Adaptation to Water Stress in Soybean: Morphology to**

Chapter 4 **Sugar Beet Tolerance to Drought: Physiological and**

Tuanjie Zhao, Muqadas Aleem and Ripa Akter Sharmin

Chapter 5 **Transcriptome, Genetic Transformation and Micropropagation: Some Biotechnology Strategies to Diminish Water Stress**

> Evelyn Arlette Carrillo Bermejo, Miguel Angel Herrera Alamillo, Samuel David Gamboa Tuz, Miguel Angel Keb Llanes, Enrique Castaño de la Serna, Manuel L. Robert and Luis Carlos Rodríguez

**Caused by Climate Change in Sugarcane 89**

Marina Putnik-Delić, Ivana Maksimović, Nevena Nagl and Branislava

**Soybean (Glycine max L.) Plants 9**

**Section 1 Introduction 1**
