Heat Tolerance in Cotton: Morphological, Physiological and Genetic Perspectives -- Seed Priming as a Method to Generate Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants: A Minireview -- Stress-Associated Proteins-How Much Effective in Augmenting Thermotolerance -- Biochemical and Molecular Markers - Unraveling Their Potential Role in Screening Germplasm for Thermotolerance -- Alteration in Carbohydrate Metabolism Modulate Thermotolerance of Plant under Heat Stress -- Transcriptomics to Dissect Plant Responses to Heat Stress -- Proteomics as a Tool for Characterizing the Alteration in Pathways Associated with Defense and Metabolite Synthesis -- RNA World and Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants -- Heat Shock Proteins: Master Players for Heat Stress Tolerance in Plants During Climate Change -- The contribution of phytohormones in plant thermotolerance -- Exploring in-Built Defence Mechanism in Plants Under Heat Stress.