We are very hopeful that the topics will be useful to a broad community of scientists working in similar areas and the outcomes discussed can provide useful leads to build strategies to generate abiotic stress tolerant varieties.

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- 1. Functional Genomics Approach Towards Dissecting out Abiotic Stress Tolerance Trait in Plants; Sneh L. Singla-Pareek.- 2. Plant miRNAome: Cross Talk in Abiotic Stressful Times; P. Suprasanna.- 3. Epigenetic Response of Plants to Abiotic Stress: Nature, Consequences and Applications in Breeding; Manoj. K. Dhar.- 4. Effect of Drought Stress and Utility of Transcriptomics in Identification of Drought Tolerance Mechanisms in Maize; T. Nepolean.- 5. Physiological and Molecular Basis of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Wheat; H.M. Mamrutha.- 6. Molecular Chaperones: Key Players of Abiotic Stress Response in Plants; A. Pareek.- 7. Role of Chromatin Assembly and Remodeling in Water Stress Responses in Plants; N. Asharaf.- 8. The 'Omics' Approach for Crop Improvement Against Drought Stress; D. Jain.- 9. Genomic Strategies for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants; N.R. Yadav.- 10. Genomics of Arsenic Stress Tolerance in Plants; P.K. Trivedi.- 11. Phytohormones Regulating the Master Regulators of CBF Dependent Cold Stress Signaling Pathway; R. Deswal.- Index.