Sustainable Agriculture in the Era of Climate Change

Under ongoing climate changes, natural and cultivated habitats of major crops are being continuously disturbed. Such conditions impose and exacerbate abiotic and biotic stressors. Drought, salinity, flood, cold, heat, heavy metals, metalloids, oxidants, irradiation, etc. are important abiotic stressors, while diseases and infections caused by plant pathogens, such as fungal agents, bacteria and viruses, are major biotic stresses. In many instances, stresses have become the major limiting factor for agricultural productivity and exert detrimental role on growth and yield of the crops. To help feed an ever increasing world population and to ensure global food security, concerted efforts from scientists and researchers have identified strategies to manage and mitigate the impacts of climate-induced stresses. This book, summarizing their findings, is aimed at crop improvement beyond such kind of barriers, by agronomic practices (genetics, breeding, phenotyping, etc.) and biotechnological applications, including molecular markers, QTL mapping, genetic engineering, transgenesis, tissue culture, various 'omics' technologies and gene editing. It will cover a wide range of topics under environmental challenges, agronomy and agriculture processes, and biotechnological approaches. Additionally, fundamental mechanisms and applied information on stress responses and tolerance will be discussed. This book highlights problems and offers proper solutions for crop stress management with recent information and up-to-date citations. We believe this book is suitable for scientists, researchers and students working in the fields of agriculture, plant science, environmental biology and biotechnology. 

Table of Contents:
Stress Management in Crops By Utilizing Landraces: Genetics and Plant Breeding Perspective.- Environmental Impact On Cereal Crop Grain Damage From Pre-Harvest Sprouting and Late Maturity Alpha Amylase.- Plant Nutrients For Crop Growth, Development and Stress Tolerance.- Role of Micronutrients In Biochemical Responses of Crops Under Abiotic Stresses.- Phytomonitoring and Mitigation of Air Pollution By Plants.- Drought Stress and Its Mitigation and Management Strategies In Crop Plants.- Drought Stress: An Impact of Climate Change, Its Consequences and Amelioration Through Silicon (Si).- Ion Transporter Genes From Wild Relatives of Cereals Hold The Key For The Development of Salinity Tolerance.- Role of Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) and Heat Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants.- Assessment of Irradiation Stress In Crop Plants With Modern Technical Advances.- Antioxidants: Responses and Importance in Plant Defense System.- Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Defence Systems In Plants: Role and Crosstalk Under Biotic Stress.- Climate Change Induced Heavy Metal (or Metalloid) Stress In Crop Plants and Possible Mitigation Strategies.- Arsenic Induced Stress and Mitigation Strategies In Plants.- Arsenic Tolerance and Signaling Mechanisms In Plants.- Heme Oxygenase 1(HO1): An Enzyme of Plant System and Its Role Against Various Abiotic Stress.- Role of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) For Crop Stress Management.- Plant Tissue Culture and Crop Improvement.- Abiotic and Biotic Stress Research In Plants: A Gizmatic Approach of Modern Omics Technologies.- Involvement of Microbes in Different Abiotic Stress Environments of Cropping Lands.- Molecular Insight of Plant-Pathogen Interaction.- Role of miRNAs In Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management In Crop Plants.- Recent Transgenic Approaches For Stress Tolerance In Crop Plants.- Improvement of Crop's Stress Tolerance By Gene Editing CRISPR-CAS9 System.- Application of Bioinformatics For Crop Stress Response and Mitigation.- Nano-Biotechnological Applications For Crop Improvement.- Agrobiodiversity and Advances In The Development of Millets In Changing Environment.