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This book incorporates fast-moving research in agricultural crop improvement and its relationship to climate change. The natural and cultivated habitats of crops are continuously affected. As a result, crop productivity and crop biology are affected continuously by climate change patterns such as environmental hazards, abiotic stresses (water scarcity, salinity, heavy metals, oxidants),and global warming.
This book discusses crop improvement taking into consideration the problems caused by climate change through agricultural processes, soil reclamation, fertilizer and biofertilizer, organic farming, hybridization and breeding programmes, biotechnological approaches, including genetic engineering, transgenesis and tissue culture, and different 'omic' technologies. The contributors are scientists, researchers, and academics from around the world who have worked on the challenging problem of achieving crop improvement in a variable environment. Each chapter deals with theoretical as well as applied topics.
This book will be especially useful to scientists and researchers engaged in crop production, crop improvement, plant breeding, agronomy, agricultural processes and biotechnology. It will also be a valuable book for graduate and postgraduate students specializing in crop science, plant biology, plant breeding, environmental science and biotechnology.
Contents
Part A: Environmental Changes to Crop Improvement; 1. An overview of climate change: causes, trends and implications; 2. Environmental hazards and crop cultivation; 3. Response of plants to oxidative stress; 4. Metal toxicity and tolerance in plants; Part B: Agronomy and Agricultural Process for Improving Crops; 5. Soil salinity: mitigation strategies for crop improvements under global climatic conditions; 6. Implications and ways to enhance nutrient use efficiency under changing climate; 7. Crop diversification and conservation agriculture towards sustainable crop improvement in global scenario; 8. Contingency crop planning for aberrant weather situations; 9. Effects of climate change on crops: food Security and Biotechnology; Part C: Biotechnological Approaches to Crop Improvement; 10. Crop hybridization in the era of climate change; 11. Plant breeding tools and techniques for crop improvement programme: A conventional and modern approach; 12. Molecular marker-assisted technologies for crop improvement; 13. 'Omics': Technique in modern agriculture for crop improvement; 14. Transgenesis via genetic engineering: A crop improvemental approach; 15. Tissue culture technology for crop improvement in the challenging environment; 16. Tailoring of abiotic stress adaptive traits to diminish the effect of changing climate on crop productivity; Part D: Implications of Advanced Technologies to Improve Demanding; 17. Improvement of melon fruits using biotechnological strategies for the changing climatic conditions of the 21st century; 18. Conventional breeding and biotechnological approaches in biodiesel crops for crop improvement in the era of climate change; 19. Functional genomics and bioinformatics approach to understand regulation of abiotic stress in cereal crops.
