pt. 1. Soil salinity and sodicity problems -- pt. 2. Plant/crop tolerance and stressful conditions -- pt. 3. Plants and crops responses : physiology, cellular, and molecular biology, and microbiological aspects under salt, drought, heat, cold, light, and other stressful conditions -- pt. 4. Plant and crop responses to pollution stress -- pt. 5. Plant and crop responses to weeds, pests, pathogens, and agrichemical stress conditions -- pt. 6. Genetic factors and plant/crop genomics under stress -- pt. 7. Examples of empirical investigations of specific plants and crops grown in salt, drought, and other environmental stress conditions -- pt. 8. Climatic changes, elevated carbon dioxide, and plant/crop responses -- pt. 9. Future promises : improving plant and crop adaptation/tolerance and cultivation under stressful conditions -- pt. 10. Beneficial aspects of stress.