Description
Despite significant progress in increasing agricultural production, meeting the changing dietary preferences and increasing food demands of future populations remains a significant challenge. Salinity, drought, water logging, high temperature and toxicity are abiotic stresses that affect the crop yield and production. Tolerance for stress is a important characteristic that plants need to have in order to survive. Identification of proper techniques at a proper time can make it easy for scientists to increase crop productivity and yield. In Engineering Tolerance in Crop Plants against Abiotic Stress we have discussed the possible stresses and their impact on crops and portrayed distinctive abiotic stress tolerance in response to different techniques that can improve the performance of crops.
Features of the Book:
- Provide a state-of-the-art description of the physiological, biochemical, and molecular status of the understanding of abiotic stress in plants.
- Address factors that threaten future food production and provide potential solution to these factors.
- Designed to cater to the needs of the students engaged in the field of environmental sciences, soil sciences, agricultural microbiology, plant pathology, and agronomy.
- New strategies for better crop productivity and yield.
- Understanding new techniques pointed out in this book will open the possibility of genetic engineering in crop plants with the concomitant improved stress tolerance.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Biochar: An Adsorbent to Remediate Environmental Pollutants
[Iqra Mehmood, Amna Bari, Mehtab Muhammad Aslam, Eyalira Jacob Okal,
Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Tahir ul Qamar, Muhammad Adnan,
Mukhtar Ahmed, Shah Saud, Fazli Wahid, Muhammad Noor, and
Shah Fahad}
Chapter 2 Understanding the Physiological and Genetic Responses of Plant Root
to Phosphorus-Deficient Condition
[Mehtab Muhammad Aslam, Joseph K. Karanja, Noor ul Ain, Kashif Akhtar,
Muhammad Arif, Junaite Bin Gias Uddin, Ahmad Ali, and Qian Zhang]
Chapter 3 Environmental Upheaval: Consequences and Management Strategies
[Misbah Naz, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Mohammad Sohidul Islam,
Akbar Hossain, Subhan Danish, Rahul Datta, Shah Fahad, Disna Ratnasekera,
Mohammad Anwar Hosssain, Muhammad Habib Ur Rahman, Shah Saud,
Muhammad Kamran, Wajid Mahboob, Rajesh Kumar Singhal, Sharif Ahmed,
Sonia Mbarki, Doğan Arslan, Murat Erman, and Ayman EL Sabagh]
Chapter 4 Salinity Stress in Cotton: Adverse Effects, Survival Mechanisms and Management
Strategies
[Ayman EL Sabagh, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal,
Akbar Hossain, Muhammad Mubeen, Tasmiya Jabeen, Mirza Waleed,
Allah Wasaya, Muhammad Habib Ur Rahman, Disna Ratnasekera,
Muhammad Arif, Ali Raza, Subhan Danish, Arpna Kumari, Murat Erman,
Cetin Karademir, Emine Karademir, Hüseyin Arslan, Muhammad Ali Raza, and
Shah Fahad]
Chapter 5 Obstacle in Controlling Major Rice Pests in Asia: Insecticide Resistance
and the Mechanisms to Confer Insecticide Resistance
[Juel Datta, Mahmuda Binte Monsur, Panchali Chakraborty,
Swapan Chakrabarty, Shah Fahad, Afsana Hossain, Md Fuad Mondal,
Sharif Ahmed, Md Panna Ali, and Ayman EL Sabagh]
Chapter 6 Role of Nanotechnology for Climate Resilient Agriculture
[Afifa Younas, Madiha Rashid, and Sajid Fiaz]
Chapter 7 Elevated CO2 in Combination with Heat Stress Influences the Growth
and Productivity of Cereals: Adverse Effect and Adaptive
Mechanisms
[Ayman EL Sabagh, Akbar Hossain, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Sharif Ahmed,
Ali Raza, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Allah Wasaya, Disna Ratnasekera, Adnan
Arshad, Arpna Kumari, Subhan Danish, Paul Ola Igboji, Rahul Datta, Sytar
Oksana, Skalický Milan, Marian Brestic, Kulvir Singh, Muhammad Ali Raza,
and Shah Fahad]
Chapter 8 Molecular Mechanisms of Stress Tolerance in Plants
[Abdul Saboor Khan, Muhammad Adnan, Aamir Hamid, and Adnan Akbar]
Chapter 9 Legumes under Drought Stress: Plant Responses, Adaptive Mechanisms,
and Management Strategies in Relation to Nitrogen Fixation
[Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Shah Fahad, Akbar Hossain, M Kaium Chowdhury,
Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Anamika Dubey, Ashwani Kumar, Karthika Rajendran,
Subhan Danish, Muhammad Habib Ur Rahman, Muhammad Ali Raza,
Muhammad Arif, Shah Saud, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Ejaz Waraich,
Zahoor Ahmad, Sajjad Hussain, Arzu Çı˘g, Murat Erman, Fatih Çı˘g, and
Ayman EL Sabagh]
Chapter 10 Auxin’s Role in Plant Development in Response to Stress
[Dr. Nazish Huma Khan, Dr. Mohammad Nafees, Mr. Fazli Zuljalal, and
Ms. Tooba Saeed]
Chapter 11 Existing Water Scarcity Scenario and Climate Change Impact on the
Transboundary Water Resources in Pakistan
[Muhammad Mohsin Waqas, Muhammad Habib Ur Rahman, Sikandar Ali, and
Haroon Rasheed]
Chapter 12 Nutrient Deficiency Stress and Relation with Plant Growth and Development
[Saghir Abbas, Amna, Muhammad Tariq Javed, Qasim Ali, Muhammad Azeem,
and Shafaqat Ali]
Chapter 13 Agricultural Practices Can Reduce Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
Challenges and Future Perspectives
[Misbah Naz, Kashif Akhtar, Aziz Khan, and Ghulam Shah Nizamani]
Chapter 14 Plant-Microbial Interactions Confer Tolerance to Abiotic Stress
in Plants
[Mehtab Muhammad Aslam, Eyalira J. Okal, Muhammad Waseem, Bello H. Jakada,
Witness J. Nyimbo, and Joseph K. Karanja]
