Climate-Resilient Agriculture, Vol 2: Agro-Biotechnological Advancement for Crop Production

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 1: Crop Responses and Agroecological  Perspectives", 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.