Overview
- Written by a diverse group of internationally known scholars
- Presents strategies for translating current research into applied solutions
- Illuminates various aspects of plant responses in molecular and biochemical ways to create strong yields and overall crop improvement
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes
Book Subtitle: Volume 2
Editors: Parvaiz Ahmad, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz, Lam-Son Phan Tran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8824-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8823-1
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5566-4
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8824-8
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 368
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Earth System Sciences