Environmental Change, and Plant Amino Acids and their Derivatives - An Introduction / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill, Imran Khan and Ritu Gill -- 5-Aminolevulinic Acid (5-ALA) - A Multifunctional Amino Acid as a Plant Growth Stimulator and Stress Tolerance Factor / Yoshikatsu Murooka and Tohru Tanaka -- Cysteine - Jack of All Glutathione-based Plant Stress Defence Trades / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Ritu Gill -- Amino Acids and Drought Stress in Lotus : Use of Transcriptomics and Plastidic Glutamine Synthetase Mutants for New Insights in Proline Metabolism / Pedro D鈏az, Marco Betti, Margarita Garc鈏a-Calder鈕n, Carmen M. P鈋rez-Delgado, Santiago Signorelli, Omar Borsani, Antonio J. M鈇rquez and Jorge Monza -- Modulation of Proline : Implications in Plant Stress Tolerance and Development / P. Suprasanna, Archana N. Rai, P. HimaKumari, S. Anil Kumar and P.B. KaviKishor -- Target Osmoprotectants for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants - Glycine Betaine and Proline / Sarvajeet S. Gill, Ritu Gill and Naser A. Anjum -- Polyamines as Indicators and as Modulators of the Abiotic Stress in Plants / Pablo Ignacio Calzadilla, Ayel鈋n Gazquez, Santiago Javier Maiale, Oscar Adolfo Ruiz and Men鈋ndez Ana Bernardina -- Polyamines in Stress Protection - Applications in Agriculture / Rub鈋n Alc鈇zar and Antonio F. Tiburcio -- Functional Role of Polyamines and Polyamine-metabolizing Enzymes during Salinity, Drought and Cold Stresses / Aryadeep Roychoudhury and Kaushik Das -- Regulatory Role of Polyamines in Growth, Development and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants / Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Kamrun Nahar and Masayuki Fujita -- Polyamines - Involvement in Plant Stress Tolerance and Adaptation / Dessislava Todorova, Zornitsa Katerova, Iskren Sergiev and Vera Alexieva -- Role of Polyamines in Plant-Pathogen Interactions / Abhijit Dey, Kamala Gupta and Bhaskar Gupta -- Role of Polyamines in Stress Management / Renu Bhardwaj, Indu Sharma, Neha Handa, Dhriti Kapoor, Harpreet Kaur, Vandana Gautam and Sukhmeen Kohli -- Polyamines in Plant In Vitro Culture / Jose Luis Casas -- Betaines and Related Osmoprotectants - Significance in Metabolic Engineering of Plant Stress Resistance / Renu Bhardwaj, Indu Sharma, Resham Sharma and Poonam -- Brassinosteroids' Role for Amino Acids, Peptides and Amines Modulation in Stressed Plants - A Review / B. Vidya Vardhini -- Plant Adaptation to Environmental Change, and Significance of Amino Acids and their Derivatives - Appraisal and Perspectives / Naser A. Anjum, Sarvajeet S. Gill and Ritu Gill.