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- Up-to-date contributions by experts from international research centers and universities
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
By 2050, human population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing resources of land, water and other environmental constraints. Rice remains the staple food source for a majority of the global populations, but especially in Asia where ninety percent of rice is grown and consumed. Climate change continues to impose abiotic and biotic stresses that curtail rice quality and yields. Researchers have been challenged to provide innovative solutions to maintain, or even increase, rice production. Amongst them, the ‘green super rice’ breeding strategy has been successful for leading the development and release of multiple abiotic and biotic stress tolerant rice varieties. Recent advances in plant molecular biology and biotechnologies have led to the identification of stress responsive genes and signaling pathways, which open up new paradigms toaugment rice productivity. Accordingly, transcription factors, protein kinases and enzymes for generating protective metabolites and proteins all contribute to an intricate network of events that guard and maintain cellular integrity. In addition, various quantitative trait loci associated with elevated stress tolerance have been cloned, resulting in the detection of novel genes for biotic and abiotic stress resistance. Mechanistic understanding of the genetic basis of traits, such as N and P use, is allowing rice researchers to engineer nutrient-efficient rice varieties, which would result in higher yields with lower inputs. Likewise, the research in micronutrients biosynthesis opens doors to genetic engineering of metabolic pathways to enhance micronutrients production. With third generation sequencing techniques on the horizon, exciting progress can be expected to vastly improve molecular markers for gene-trait associations forecast with increasing accuracy.
This book emphasizes on the areas of rice science that attempt to overcome the foremost limitations in rice production. Our intention is to highlight research advances in the fields of physiology, molecular breeding and genetics, with a special focus on increasing productivity, improving biotic and abiotic stress tolerance and nutritional quality of rice.
Editors and Affiliations
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Hybrid Rice Breeder, Senior Scientist II, Leader, Hybrid Rice Breeding Cluster, Head, Hybrid Rice Development Consortium (HRDC), International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Metro Manila, Philippines
Jauhar Ali
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Assistant Professor/Scientist, Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir, India
Shabir Hussain Wani
About the editors
Dr. Shabir Hussain Wani is working as Scientist cum Assistant Professor (senior scale), Plant Breeding and Genetics at Mountain Research Centre for Field Crops, Khudwani, and SKUAST-Kashmir India. He received Ph.D. in plant breeding and genetics on “transgenic rice for abiotic stress tolerance” from the Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana, India. He teaches courses related to plant breeding, seed science and technology, and stress breeding and has published more than 200 papers/chapters in journals and books of international and national repute. He served as guest editor and reviews editor for journal Frontier in Plant Science (2015-2018). He has also edited several books on current topics in crop improvement for abiotic stress tolerance published by Springer Nature and CRC press USA. He also served as visiting Scientist at Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, USA under the UGC Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship programme. He has attended several international and national conferences, presenting his research.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rice Improvement
Book Subtitle: Physiological, Molecular Breeding and Genetic Perspectives
Editors: Jauhar Ali, Shabir Hussain Wani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66530-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66529-6Published: 06 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66532-6Published: 06 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66530-2Published: 05 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 498
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Physiology, Nutrition