Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Environmental Stress and Stress Biology in Plants -- 2. Significance of Soil Organic Matter in Relation to Plants and Their Products -- 3. Plant and Soil Interfaces and Their Interactions under Different Climate -- 4. Plant Essential Nutrients, Nutrient Composition in Soil, and Activity of Plant Metabolites -- 5. Secondary Plant Metabolites: Mechanisms and Roles in Insect Pest Management -- 6. Secondary Metabolites in Pathogen-Induced Plant Defense -- 7. Polyhydroxyalkanoates: A Valuable Secondary Metabolite Produced in Microorganisms and Plants -- 8. Diverse Utilization of Plant-Originated Secondary Metabolites -- Index