Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes (eBook)

Volume 2

Parvaiz Ahmad, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz, Lam-Son Phan Tran (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 2014
XVII, 368 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-1-4614-8824-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Abiotic stress drastically limits agricultural crop productivity worldwide. Climate change threatens the sustainable agriculture with its rapid and unpredictable effects, making it difficult for agriculturists and farmers to respond to the challenges cropping up from environmental stresses. In light of population growth and climate changes, investment in agriculture is the only way to avert wide scale food shortages. This challenge comes at a time when plant sciences are witnessing remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental processes of plant growth and development. Plant researchers have identified genes controlling different aspects of plant growth and development, but many challenges still exist in creating an apt infrastructure, access to bioinformatics and good crop results. Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 focuses on many existing opportunities that can be applied methodically through conventional breeding, without touching upon the latest discoveries such as the power of genomics to applied breeding in plant biology.

Written by a diverse faction of internationally famed scholars, this volume adds new horizons in the field of crop improvement, genetic engineering and abiotic stress tolerance. Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 is a state-of-the-art guide to recent developments vis-à-vis various aspects of plant responses in molecular and biochemical ways to create strong yields and overall crop improvement.

Dr. Parvaiz Ahmad
Department of Botany, Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Dr. Mohd Rafiq Wani
Department of Botany, Govt. Degree College (Boys), Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz
Department of Botany, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

Dr. Lam-Son Phan Tran
Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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Abiotic stress drastically limits agricultural crop productivity worldwide. Climate change threatens the sustainable agriculture with its rapid and unpredictable effects, making it difficult for agriculturists and farmers to respond to the challenges cropping up from environmental stresses. In light of population growth and climate changes, investment in agriculture is the only way to avert wide scale food shortages. This challenge comes at a time when plant sciences are witnessing remarkable progress in understanding the fundamental processes of plant growth and development. Plant researchers have identified genes controlling different aspects of plant growth and development, but many challenges still exist in creating an apt infrastructure, access to bioinformatics and good crop results. Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 focuses on many existing opportunities that can be applied methodically through conventional breeding, without touching upon the latest discoveries such as the power of genomics to applied breeding in plant biology.Written by a diverse faction of internationally famed scholars, this volume adds new horizons in the field of crop improvement, genetic engineering and abiotic stress tolerance. Comprehensive and lavishly illustrated, Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 2 is a state-of-the-art guide to recent developments vis-a-vis various aspects of plant responses in molecular and biochemical ways to create strong yields and overall crop improvement.

Inhalt

Chapter 1Brassicas: Responses and Tolerance To Heavy Metal Stress Shaista Qadir, Asiya Hameed, Nahida Tun Nisa, MM Azooz, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mirza Hasannuzaman, Alvina Gul Kazi and Parvaiz AhmadChapter 2Recent Advances in Rapid and Sensitive Screening For Abiotic Stress ToleranceNitin Mantri, Vikas Patade and Edwin PangChapter 3Transcriptomics of Heat Stress in PlantsB. Sailaja, Satendra K. Mangrauthia, N. Sarla and S. R. VoletiChapter 4Biotic Stress and Crop ImprovementIrada Huseynova, Nargiz Sultanova, Alamdar Mammadov, Saftar Suleymanov and Jalal AliyevChapter 5 Salt Stress and Sugar Beet Improvement: Challenges and OpportunitiesAbazar Rajabi, Samar Khayamim, Zahra Abbasi, and Eric OberChapter 6Genotypic Variation for Drought Tolerance in Wheat PlantsJalal A. Aliyev and Irada M. HuseynovaChapter 7 Soil Contaminants: Sources, Effects and Approaches for RemediationGhulam Murtaza, Behzad Murtaza, Nabeel Khan Niazi, and Muhammad SabirChapter 8Role of Macronutrients in Plant Growth and Acclimation: Recent Advances and Future ProspectiveDurgesh Kumar Tripathi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Devendra Kumar Chauhan, Sheo Mohan Prasad, and Nawal Kishor DubeyChapter 9Mutation Breeding: A Novel Technique for Genetic Improvement of Pulse Crops Particularly Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohd Imran Kozgar, Nasya Tomlekova, Samiullah Khan, Alvina Gul Kazi, Subzar Ahmad Sheikh, and Parvaiz AhmadChapter 10Organic Farming: The Return To NatureSaima Siddique, Madeeha Hamid, Ameema Tariq, Muhammad Ashraf, and Alvina Gul KaziChapter 11The Role of Cytological Aberrations in Crop Improvement Through Induced MutagenesisMohammad Imran Kozgar, Shaheen Hussain, Mohd Rafiq Wani and Samiullah KhanChapter 12Wheat Improvement: Historical Perspective and Mutational Approach-A ReviewSubzar Ahmad Sheikh, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohd Imran Kozgar and Parvaiz AhmadChapter 13Cotton Leaf Curl Virus Disease Predictive Model Based on Environmental VariablesSafdar Ali, M. Aslam Khan, Shahbaz Talib Sahi, M. Atiq, and A. HannanChapter 14Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Responses -Their Potentials in Crop ImprovementXuan Lan Thi Hoang, Nguyen Binh Anh Thu, Nguyen Phuong Thao, and Lam-Son Phan Tran

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.7.2014
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 368 p. 34 illus., 12 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Biochemie / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zellbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: abiotic stress • Climatic Change • ecophysiology • Heavy metals • Omics
• ISBN-10: 1-4614-8824-9 / 1461488249
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4614-8824-8 / 9781461488248