Crop Responses to Global Warming, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016

The monograph entitled ?Crop responses to Global warming? describes the normal historical shifts in the earth?s atmospheric temperature and weighs the evidence concerning anthropogenic induced changes in the level of temperature.  The unprecedented increase in the earth?s temperature after pre industrial period has been possibly related to the anthropogenic activities. This monograph will give an overview of the global as well as Indian crops productivity in relation to the rise in the earth?s surface temperature. A chapter in this monograph is on the technologies to study the response of crop plants to the elevated temperature.

The impact assessment analysis of rising temperature on crops such as wheat, rice, maize, soybean, cotton and brassica are described, reviewed and discussed in separate chapters as case studies. The responses of physiological processes and biochemical reactions to the elevated temperature in crop plants are described crop wise. The monograph also includes the impact of elevating temperature on crop weed interaction, pest and diseases and soil dynamics for each crop species independently. The mitigation technologies to counter the adverse effect of high temperature stress are described for each crop according to their cultivation and climatic conditions. The future research strategies for each crop to meet the threat of elevating temperature on crop productivity and food security is described and discussed.

The description of temperature enrichment technologies will help researchers and scientists to study the responses of biological materials to rising temperature. The monograph will be the main text for teaching climate change, global warming and environmental botany as no such book is currently available relating to the rising atmospheric temperature on crop plants. Therefore, the monograph will be highly useful for students of global climate change, environmental botany and agricultural sciences, scientists, researchers, farmers and policy makers

1. Introduction.- 2. Problems and Prospects of Crops with Changing Temperature.- 3. Temperature Enrichment Technologies for Crop Response Studies.- 4. Case Histories: Crops.- 5. Mitigation Technologies To Control High Temperature Stress In Crop Plants.

Dr. D.C. Upreti is currently working as Emeritus Scientist at Division of Plant Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. 

Papers published in International Journals: 

1. Pooja Gokhale Sinha, P. Pardha Saradhi, Dinesh Chandra Uprety, Ashok Kumar Bhatnagara, (2011): Effect of elevated CO2 concentration on photosynthesis and flowering in three wheat species belonging to different ploidies. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 142 (3-4) 432-436.

2. Kumeleh, A.S., Sharmila, P., Uprety , D.C., and Saradhi, P.P. (2009): Effects of elevated CO2 on soil physicochemical characteristics under Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) technology. Climate Change : Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions,IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science (IOP Publishing Ltd.) 6: P 29.26.

3. Sinha, P. G., Kapoor, R. , Uprety, D.C. and Bhatnagar , A. K. (2009): Impact of elevated CO2 concentration on ultrastructure of pericarp and composition of grain in three Triticum species of different ploidy levels. Environmental and Experimental Botany ,66:451-456

1. Chakraborty,K, Uprety D.C. and Bhaduri,D. (2015). Growth,physioloigy and biochemical responses of two different Brassica species to elevated CO2.Proc.Natl.Acad. of Sciences, B. Biol.Sci. DOI 10.1007/s40011-015-0615-9.

2. Chakraborty,K,Bhaduri,D,Uprety,D.C. and Patra,A.K.(2013).Differential response of plant and soil processes under climate change. Amini review on recent understanding. Proc.Natl.Acad.of Sciences Sec.B.Biological Sciences 07-2013

3. Chakraborty,K.and Uprety,D.C.(2012). Elevated CO2 alters seed composition and quality of Brassica (Short communication) 17,1,(n.s.),84-87

4. Uprety, D.C., Baruah,K.K. & Borah L. (2011): Methane in rice agriculture, J. Sci. Ind   Res. 70:401-411.

Book/Monograph: 

1. Upre

Elaborates on effect of rising temperature on the agricultural crop productivity and food security

Emphasizes on variable vulnerability of crops in different parts of the world

Provides an understanding of the plant responses to elevated temperature that is essential for rational engineering of crop plants