Sustainable Agriculture in the Era of Climate Change, 1st ed. 2020

Coordinators: Roychowdhury Rajib, Choudhury Shuvasish, Hasanuzzaman Mirza, Srivastava Sangeeta

Language: English
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Under ongoing climate changes, natural and cultivated habitats of major crops are being continuously disturbed. Such conditions impose and exacerbate abiotic and biotic stressors. Drought, salinity, flood, cold, heat, heavy metals, metalloids, oxidants, irradiation, etc. are important abiotic stressors, while diseases and infections caused by plant pathogens, such as fungal agents, bacteria and viruses, are major biotic stresses. In many instances, stresses have become the major limiting factor for agricultural productivity and exert detrimental role on growth and yield of the crops. To help feed an ever increasing world population and to ensure global food security, concerted efforts from scientists and researchers have identified strategies to manage and mitigate the impacts of climate-induced stresses. This book, summarizing their findings, is aimed at crop improvement beyond such kind of barriers, by agronomic practices (genetics, breeding, phenotyping, etc.) and biotechnological applications, including molecular markers, QTL mapping, genetic engineering, transgenesis, tissue culture, various 'omics' technologies and gene editing. It will cover a wide range of topics under environmental challenges, agronomy and agriculture processes, and biotechnological approaches. Additionally, fundamental mechanisms and applied information on stress responses and tolerance will be discussed. This book highlights problems and offers proper solutions for crop stress management with recent information and up-to-date citations. We believe this book is suitable for scientists, researchers and students working in the fields of agriculture, plant science, environmental biology and biotechnology. 
Stress Management in Crops By Utilizing Landraces: Genetics and Plant Breeding Perspective.- Environmental Impact On Cereal Crop Grain Damage From Pre-Harvest Sprouting and Late Maturity Alpha Amylase.- Plant Nutrients For Crop Growth, Development and Stress Tolerance.- Role of Micronutrients In Biochemical Responses of Crops Under Abiotic Stresses.- Phytomonitoring and Mitigation of Air Pollution By Plants.- Drought Stress and Its Mitigation and Management Strategies In Crop Plants.- Drought Stress: An Impact of Climate Change, Its Consequences and Amelioration Through Silicon (Si).- Ion Transporter Genes From Wild Relatives of Cereals Hold The Key For The Development of Salinity Tolerance.- Role of Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) and Heat Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants.- Assessment of Irradiation Stress In Crop Plants With Modern Technical Advances.- Antioxidants: Responses and Importance in Plant Defense System.- Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Defence Systems In Plants: Role and Crosstalk Under Biotic Stress.- Climate Change Induced Heavy Metal (or Metalloid) Stress In Crop Plants and Possible Mitigation Strategies.- Arsenic Induced Stress and Mitigation Strategies In Plants.- Arsenic Tolerance and Signaling Mechanisms In Plants.- Heme Oxygenase 1(HO1): An Enzyme of Plant System and Its Role Against Various Abiotic Stress.- Role of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) For Crop Stress Management.- Plant Tissue Culture and Crop Improvement.- Abiotic and Biotic Stress Research In Plants: A Gizmatic Approach of Modern Omics Technologies.- Involvement of Microbes in Different Abiotic Stress Environments of Cropping Lands.- Molecular Insight of Plant-Pathogen Interaction.- Role of miRNAs In Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management In Crop Plants.- Recent Transgenic Approaches For Stress Tolerance In Crop Plants.- Improvement of Crop's Stress Tolerance By Gene Editing CRISPR-CAS9 System.- Application of Bioinformatics For Crop Stress Response and Mitigation.- Nano-Biotechnological Applications For Crop Improvement.- Agrobiodiversity and Advances In The Development of Millets In Changing Environment.

Dr. Rajib Roychowdhury is presently working as Postdoctoral Visiting Scientist at the Institute of Plant Sciences of Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) – Volcani Center, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Israel. His current research is focusing on Genetics and Breeding of Berry fruits (strawberry, blueberry, raspberry) to improve yield and quality under Mediterranean climate. In the postdoctoral tenure, Dr. Roychowdhury extensively worked on Winter Cereal Genetics and Breeding, especially to improve wheat in Israeli semiarid environments (a part of fertile crescent of wheat domestication) using diverse genetic stocks like modern cultivars, landraces, durum, spelt, dicoccum, emmer, etc. Dr. Roychowdhury received his Ph.D. in Plant Biotechnology from Visva-Bharati Central University (India) for research on previously unreported rice landraces for their agromorphology, grain quality, and abiotic stress tolerance. Later, he also did short-term postdoctoral research on "Metalloid stress tolerance in rice" under a CSIR project (Government of India) from Assam Central University, Silchar, India. During master’s and post-master’s tenure, he worked a lot on mutation breeding in Carnation, which was a pioneering work on this floricultural crop in South-East Asia. Dr. Roychowdhury was elected as a Fellow Member of the Linnaean Society of London, UK. His biography was published in the Pearl Edition of Marquis Who’sWho of the World, USA. In 2019, he got the travel award by International Wheat Initiative (Germany) for presenting his research in the 1st International Wheat Congress (Saskatoon, Canada) and to participate in the pre-conference workshop on 'Un-manned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based phenotyping for wheat improvement'. Dr. Roychowdhury has written several impacted research papers, review articles, invited chapters, and books in both international and nationally reputed journals and publishers. Till date, his publications got a total of 1400 cit

Chapters address present day hot topics on stress management of crops in changing climate by international reputed scientists/researchers

Incorporates fast-moving agricultural research themes based on crop improvement through the stress management

Written for a wide range of readers with easy-to-understand tables and diagrams