Climate-Resilient Agriculture, Vol 1: Crop Responses and Agroecological Perspectives

Under ongoing climate change, natural and cultivated habitats of  major food crops are being continuously disturbed. Such condition  accelerates to impose stress effects like abiotic and biotic stressors.  Drought, salinity, flood, cold, heat, heavy metals, metalloids,  oxidants, irradiation etc. are important abiotic stresses; and diseases  and infections caused by plant pathogens viz. fungal agents, bacteria  and viruses are major biotic stresses. As a result, these harsh  environments affect crop productivity and its biology in multiple  complex paradigms. As stresses become the limiting factors for  agricultural productivity and exert detrimental role on growth and yield  of the crops, scientists and researchers are challenged to maintain  global food security for a rising world population.
This two-volume  work highlights the fast-moving agricultural research on crop  improvement through the stress mitigation strategies, with specific  focuses on crop biology and their response to climatic instabilities.  Together with "Climate Resilient Agriculture, Vol 2:  Agro-Biotechnological Advancement for Crop Production", it covers a wide  range of topics under environmental challenges, agronomy and  agriculture processes, and biotechnological approaches, uniquely  suitable for scientists, researchers and students working in the fields  of agriculture, plant science, environmental biology and biotechnology.