A rapidly growing human population and issues of hunger and food inequality call for investigation into higher crop yields, and the transformation of marginal and degraded areas into arable land, particularly in developing countries. Ashraf (botany, U. of Agriculture in Faisalabad, Pakistan), Harris (plant science, School of Science & the Environme

Gain a better understanding of the genetic and physiological bases of stress response and stress tolerance as part of crop improvement programsAbiotic Stresses: Plant Resistance Through Breeding and Molecular Approaches explores innovative methods for breeding new varieties of major crops with resistance to environmental stresses that limit crop production worldwide. Experts provide you with basic principles and techniques of plant breeding as well as work done in relation to improving resistance in specific important world food crops. This book supplies extensive bibliographies at the end of...

Salinity and water stress limit crop productivity worldwide and generate substantial economic losses each year, yet innovative research on crop and natural resource management can reveal cost-effective ways in which farmers can increase both their productivity and their income.

Presenting recent research findings on salt stress, water stress and stress-adapted plants, this book offers insights into new strategies for increasing the efficiency of crops under stressful environments. The strategies are based on conventional breeding and advanced molecular techniques used by plant...

Inter and intra-accession variation indicated the presence of local wealth for lentil that is yet needed to collect, therefore further exploration mission is suggested to strengthen gene pool. Except Punjab province, all the other areas are required to explore before extinct of this local germplasm.The RAPD markers exhibited significant association with three parameters (SDS-PAGE, isozymes and qualitative trait). All the five parameters facilitated to resolve issues related to genetic diversity in lentil, anyhow total seed proteins and isozyme (six in present case) gave low level of genetic...

Floodplain is an area adjacent to the main
river channel and is very fertile to agriculture;
therefore, these areas have been widely developed for
agriculture and settlement purposes. As a result, floods
have caused enormous damages to life, property and
agriculture many times in the past. The river Indus doesnt
flow in a single main channel. At some places it is divided
into two channels and water flows even in the low flow
season. Consequently, the areas in between these channels
...

The book dicusses the various methods of culture of natural food and then their replacement with encapsulated artificial diets. Natural as well as artificial feeds were encapsulated for both striped bass and inland silverside. Artificial diets were totally casein-based while natural diet consisted of Artemia nauplii, daphnia and rotifers. The composition of artificial diet was totally based on nutritionl composition of natural food. For this purpose all the natural foods were first analyzed for their nutritional evaluation before undertaking any feed formulation. Formulated and...

Weeds cause significant yield reduction under semi- arid conditions of Pakistan especially in pulses. Mungbean is the important pulse in Northern region of Punjab, Pakistan, but its yield is very low due to severe weed infestation. The existing practice of hand weeding is no more practicable. Therefore, sustainable, cost-effective and farmer friendly strategy needs to be developed so that the resource poor farmers can earn sustainable livelihood. This book contains research findings of comprehensive experimentation on the use of barley water extract in combination with low doses of...

In the recent years, the looming food scarcity problem has highlighted plant sciences as an emerging discipline committed to devise new strategies for enhanced crop productivity. The major factors causing food scarcity are biotic and abiotic stresses such as plant pathogens, salinity, drought, flooding, nutrient deficiency or toxicity which substantially limit crop productivity world-wide. In this scenario, strategies should be adopted to achieve maximum productivity and economic crop returns. In this book we have mainly focused on physiological, biochemical, molecular and genetic bases of...

This book describes advantages and disadvantages of House sparrow and how it damages the crops as pest. What control measures people have been and are taking to control this pest. Different mthods have also been described to prevent the damages they cause to agriculture. Breeding behaviour of House sparrow has been described in detail. Type of feed young and adult feed on has been described in detail. Parental care of this bird has also been described. In the second part effects of a homeopathic medicine, Natarum muraticum have been investigated. When this medicine was fed to male and female...

Human demand for energy has grown multi-folds in recent years. This is the result of rapidly increasing human population, which, in turn, has resulted in increased organic (petroleum) and inorganic pollution on the biosphere. Due to this, we are now facing a number of challenges to sustain life on earth. For example, the increased organic and inorganic pollution in our environment is leading to loss of biodiversity, degradation of environment and thus ultimately causing food insecurity. In this situation, it is imperative to keep updated ourselves with advances on the effects of pollutants,...