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
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Current trends in population growth hint that global food production is unlikely to gratify future demands under predicted climate change scenarios unless the rates of crop improvement are accelerated. Crop production faces numerous challenges, due to changing environmental conditions and evolving needs for new plant-derived materials. These challenges come at a time when the plant sciences are witnessing remarkable progress in understanding fundamental processes of plant growth and development. Drought, heat, cold and salinity are among the major abiotic stresses that often cause a series of morphological, physiological, biochemical and molecular alterations which adversely affect plant growth, development and productivity, consequently posing a serious challenge for sustainable food production in large parts of the world, particularly in emerging countries. This emphasizes the urgency of finding better ways to translate new advances in plant science into concrete successes in agricultural production. To overcome the pessimistic influence of abiotic stresses and to maintain the food security in the face of these challenges, new, improved and tolerant crop varieties, contemporary breeding techniques, and cavernous understanding of the mechanisms that counteract detrimental climate changes are indubitably needed to sustain the requisite food supply. In this context, Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 1 provides a state-of-the-art guide to recent developments that aid in the understanding of plant responses to abiotic stresses and lead to new horizons vis-à -vis prime strategies for translating current research into applied solutions to create strong yields and overall crop improvement under such unfavourable environments.
Written by a diverse group of internationally famed scholars, Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes, Volume 1 is a brief yet all-inclusive resource that is immenselyadvantageous for researchers, students, environmentalists, soil scientists, professionals, and many others in the quest of advancement in this flourishing field of research.
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 1
Editors: Parvaiz Ahmad, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz, Lam-Son Phan Tran
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8830-9
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: 978-1-4614-8829-3
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5565-7
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8830-9
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 397
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Plant Sciences, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Earth System Sciences