Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes: Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9781493955664 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 368 str.

Parvaiz Ahmad; Mohd Rafiq Wani; Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz

Opis

Abiotic stress drastically limits agricultural crop productivity worldwide. Climate change threatens the sustainable agriculture with its rapid and unpredictable effects, making it difficult for agriculturists and farmers to respond to the challenges cropping up from environmental stresses. In light of population growth and climate changes, investment in agriculture is the only way to avert wide scale food shortages. This challenge comes at a time when plant sciences are witnessing remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental processes of plant growth and development. Plant researchers have identified genes controlling different aspects of plant growth and development, but many challenges still exist in creating an apt infrastructure, access to bioinformatics and good crop results. Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 focuses on many existing opportunities that can be applied methodically through conventional breeding, without touching upon the latest discoveries such as the power of genomics to applied breeding in plant biology.Written by a diverse faction of internationally famed scholars, this volume adds new horizons in the field of crop improvement, genetic engineering and abiotic stress tolerance. Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 is a state-of-the-art guide to recent developments vis-a-vis various aspects of plant responses in molecular and biochemical ways to create strong yields and overall crop improvement.

Spis treści

Chapter 1
Brassicas: Responses and Tolerance To Heavy Metal Stress
Shaista Qadir, Asiya Hameed, Nahida Tun Nisa, MM Azooz, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mirza Hasannuzaman, Alvina Gul Kazi and Parvaiz Ahmad

Chapter 2
Recent Advances in Rapid and Sensitive Screening For Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Nitin Mantri, Vikas Patade and Edwin Pang

Chapter 3
Transcriptomics of Heat Stress in Plants
B. Sailaja, Satendra K. Mangrauthia, N. Sarla and S. R. Voleti

Chapter 4
Biotic Stress and Crop Improvement
Irada Huseynova, Nargiz Sultanova, Alamdar Mammadov, Saftar Suleymanov and Jalal Aliyev

Chapter 5
Salt Stress and Sugar Beet Improvement: Challenges and Opportunities
Abazar Rajabi, Samar Khayamim, Zahra Abbasi, and Eric Ober

Chapter 6
Genotypic Variation for Drought Tolerance in Wheat Plants
Jalal A. Aliyev and Irada M. Huseynova

Chapter 7 
Soil Contaminants: Sources, Effects and Approaches for Remediation
Ghulam Murtaza, Behzad Murtaza, Nabeel Khan Niazi, and Muhammad Sabir

Chapter 8
Role of Macronutrients in Plant Growth and Acclimation: Recent Advances and Future Prospective
Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Devendra Kumar Chauhan, Sheo Mohan Prasad, and Nawal Kishor Dubey

Chapter 9
Mutation Breeding: A Novel Technique for Genetic Improvement of Pulse Crops Particularly Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohd Imran Kozgar, Nasya Tomlekova, Samiullah Khan, Alvina Gul Kazi, Subzar Ahmad Sheikh, and Parvaiz Ahmad

Chapter 10
Organic Farming: The Return To Nature
Saima Siddique, Madeeha Hamid, Ameema Tariq, Muhammad Ashraf, and Alvina Gul Kazi

Chapter 11
The Role of Cytological Aberrations in Crop Improvement Through Induced Mutagenesis
Mohammad Imran Kozgar, Shaheen Hussain, Mohd Rafiq Wani and Samiullah Khan

Chapter 12
Wheat Improvement: Historical Perspective and Mutational Approach-A Review
Subzar Ahmad Sheikh, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohd Imran Kozgar and Parvaiz Ahmad

Chapter 13
Cotton Leaf Curl Virus Disease Predictive Model Based on Environmental Variables
Safdar Ali, M. Aslam Khan, Shahbaz Talib Sahi, M. Atiq, and A. Hannan

Chapter 14
Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Responses -Their Potentials in Crop Improvement
Xuan Lan Thi Hoang, Nguyen Binh Anh Thu, Nguyen Phuong Thao, and Lam-Son Phan Tran

O autorze

Dr. Parvaiz Ahmad
Department of Botany, Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Dr. Mohd Rafiq Wani
Department of Botany, Govt. Degree College (Boys), Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz
Department of Botany, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Dr. Lam-Son Phan Tran
Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Blurb

Abiotic stress drastically limits agricultural crop productivity worldwide. Climate change threatens the sustainable agriculture with its rapid and unpredictable effects, making it difficult for agriculturists and farmers to respond to the challenges cropping up from environmental stresses. In light of population growth and climate changes, investment in agriculture is the only way to avert wide scale food shortages. This challenge comes at a time when plant sciences are witnessing remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental processes of plant growth and development. Plant researchers have identified genes controlling different aspects of plant growth and development, but many challenges still exist in creating an apt infrastructure, access to bioinformatics, and good crop results. Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 focuses on many existing opportunities that can be applied methodically through conventional breeding, without touching upon the latest discoveries such as the power of genomics to applied breeding in plant biology.Written by a diverse faction of internationally famed scholars, this volume adds new horizons in the field of crop improvement, genetic engineering and abiotic stress tolerance.

Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 is a state-of-the-art guide to recent developments vis-à-vis various aspects of plant responses in molecular and biochemical ways to create strong yields and overall crop improvement.