Table of Contents

1. Physiological and Molecular Advances in Plant Iron Nutrition 2. Phospholipid Metabolism in Plants 3. Metabolism of Sucrose and Starch in Plants. Synthesis and Their Degradation 4. Nitrate Assimilation and Nitrate Reductase Activity 5. Plant Water Relationships and Strategies to Improve Salt Tolerance 6. Impact of Heavy Metal Pollution in Plants 7. Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Pulses and Cereals 8. PGPR. A New Group of Biofertilizers for Sustainable Crop Productivity 9. Towards An Understanding of the Factors Affecting Productivity of Fruit Crops 10. Role of Herbicides in Improving Crop Yields