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Preface.- 1. Overview of plant stresses: Mechanisms, adaptations and research pursuit.- 1.1. Introduction.- 1.2. Stresses and their significance in crops.- 1.3. Improving stress tolerance - Conventional and Molecular approaches.- 1.4. Future outlook.- 1.5. References; Maheshwari. M. et al.- 2. Dryland Agriculture: Bringing resilience to crop production under changing climate.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Major Dryland agricultural regions of the world.- 2.3. Climate change scenario in drylands.- 2.4. Challenges to agricultural production in drylands under changing climate.- 2.5. Strategies to increase resilience to climate change in dryland agriculture.- 2.6. Conclusions and future directions.- 2.7. References; Venkateshwarlu B., Arun K.Shanker.- 3. Abiotic and biotic stresses in Plantation Crops: Adaptation and Management.- 3.1. Introduction.- 3.2. Adaptation to abiotic stresses.- 3.3. Adaptation to biotic stresses.- 3.4. Management of stresses.- 3.5. Conclusions.- 3.6. References; Vinod K.K.- 4. Enhancing productivity and performance of oil seed crops under environmental stresses.- 4.1. Introduction.- 4.2. The Relay: Sensing and Signaling.- 4.3. Defending Drought Stress.- 4.4. SnRK Family of Protein Kinases and Stress Response.- 4.5. Quantitative trait loci and temperature stress.- 4.5. Summary and Future Perspectives .- 4.6. References; Bhinu V.S. et al.- 5. Applications of Machine Learning for Maize Breeding for stress.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Machine Learning: An overview.- 5.3. Molecular breeding for drought tolerance.- 5.4. Mapping of QTLs (Quantitative trait loci).- 5.5. Final Considerations.- 5.6. References.- 5.7. Appendix: Support Vector Machines; Leonardo Ornella et al.- 6. Heat stress in rice - physiological mechanisms and adaptation strategies.- 6.1. Introduction.- 6.2. Threshold temperature.- 6.3. Different changes along the phenological phases.- 6.4. Mechanism and induction of heat tolerance.- 6.5. Breeding strategies.- 6.6. Fertigation- a novel strategy.- 6.7. Energy economics under heat stress.- 6.8. Concluding remarks.- 6.9. References; Kondamudi R. et al.- 7. Improvement of drought resistance in crops: From conventional breeding to genomic selection.- 7.1. The complexity of drought environments and plant adaptation.- 7.2. Assessment of drought tolerance in crops.- 7.3. Achievement of the conventional breeding in the last Century.- 7.4. Selection by secondary traits.- 7.5. Assessment of secondary traits.- 7.6. Molecular markers-assisted genetic improvement.- 7.7. Transgenic-assisted genetic enhancement.- 7.8. Conventional versus molecular breeding .- 7.9. Concluding remarks.- 7.10. References; Anna Maria Mastrangelo et al.- 8. Plant response and tolerance to abiotic oxidative stress: antioxidant defense is the key.- 8.1. Introduction.- 8.2. Abiotic stressors in plants.- 8.3. Production of reactive oxygen species in plants.- 8.4. Detoxification of ROS by the antioxidant defense system.- 8.5. Plant responses and antioxidant defense under major abiotic stresses.- 8.6. Transgenic approaches to enhance oxidative stress tolerance.- 8.7. Conclusion and future perspectives.- 8.8. References; Mirza Hasanuzzaman et al.- 9. Transcription Factors and Genes in Abiotic Stress.- 9.1. Introduction.- 9.2. Role of Transcription Factors in the activation of stress responsive genes.- 9.3. Drought.- 9.4. Flooding Stress.- 9.5. Salinity.- 9.6. High light stress.- 9.7. Ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation.- 9.8. Cold Stress.- 9.9. Oxidative stress .- 9.10. References; Pasqualina Woodrow et al.- 10. Chlorophyll a fluorescence in abiotic stress.- 10.1. Introduction.- 10.2. Chlorophyll fluorescence: basic concept.- 10.3. Stress in relations to chlorophyll fluorescence.- 10.4. Concluding remarks.- 10.5. References; Lucia Guidi, Elena Degl'Innocenti.- 11. Crop Stress and Aflatoxin Contamination: Perspectives and Prevention Strategies.- 11.1. Introduction.- 11.2. Significance of Aspergilli and Aflatoxins.- 11.3. Insect Herbivory Stress.- 11.
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  • ISBN-13: 9789400798540
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Edition: 2012 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9400798547
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jan 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 612
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 915 gr


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