1st Edition
Climate-Resilient Agriculture A Molecular Perspective
Developing climate-smart crops is vital to securing food security around the world. This new book discusses the state-of-the-art technologies that can help to mitigate plant abiotic stresses in cultivated crops. It covers the current aspects of climate-resilience agriculture, including the crucial physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects of cultivated crops under stress conditions, which play a pivotal role in developing climate-smart crops. The volume explores breeding, omics, genetic engineering, bioengineering of metabolic pathways, artificial intelligence, and more.
Key features:
- Addresses the current and future challenges of climate changes on food security
- Details the impact of different biotic, abiotic stresses, along with their interactions and effect on crop plants in climate-changing scenarios
- Gives a comprehensive account of molecular mechanisms associated with different stresses in crop plants
- Discusses advances in breeding and biotechnological techniques to tackle the different stresses in challenging climatic fluctuations
- Highlights various emerging approaches and technologies currently being used in developing climate-smart crops
- Provides success stories of crop improvement against the different stresses.
PART I: CLIMATE-RESILIENT AGRICULTURE: INTRODUCTION
1. Climate Change: Effects and Need of Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Saurabh Pandey and Ashutosh Singh
2. Effects of Climate Change on Plant Growth and Development
Maksud Hasan Shah, Kalipada Pramanik, Sk. Md. Ajaharuddin, Santanu Kundu, Mohd Aftab Alam, Saidul Islam, Apurba Pal, Kousik Atta, and Chaitanya B. Pande
3. Impact of Climate Change on Disease Incidence of Crop Plants
Jyotsana Tilgam, Bhavyasree R. K., Manjesh Saakre, and M. Ashajyothi
4. Impact of Biotic and Abiotic Interaction on Crop Plants
Amresh Kumar, Chirag Maheshwari, Sachin Phogat, Ankur Poudel, Aditi Arya, and Subodh Kumar Sinha
PART II: CLIMATE-RESILIENT AGRICULTURE: BREEDING AND MOLECULAR APPROACHES
5. Marker-Assisted Selection: Strategy for Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants
Anjali Joshi, Amarjeet Kumar, Sneha Adhikari, and Ranjit Saroj
6. Breeding and Molecular Approaches for Heat-Resilient Crops
Alka Bharati, Amarjeet Kumar, Ajay Kumar Chandra, Sachin Phogat, Ankur Poudel, Sneha Adhikari, Vishal Dinkar, and Sharani Choudhury
7. Breeding and Molecular Approaches for Drought-Resilient Crops
H. G. Kencharaddi, Suresha P.G., C. D. Soregaon, and Amarjeet Kumar
8. Pollen-Based Selection Strategy for Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Suresh Antre, Saumya Kumari, Apurba Pal, Saurabh Pandey, and Ashutosh Singh
9. From Genetics to Genomics: Connecting Conventional to Modern Approaches for Designing Climate-Resilient Underutilized Orphan Crops
Ajay Kumar Chandra, Amarjeet Kumar, Alka Bharti, Love Kumar, and Ashutosh Singh
PART III: CLIMATE-RESILIENT AGRICULTURE: ADVANCED TECHNIQUES
10. Speed Breeding: Rapid Generation Tool for Breeding Climate Smart Crops
Sneha Adhikari, Amarjeet Kumar, Anjali Joshi, Alka Bharati, Pramod Prasad, Op. Gangwar, Charu Lata, Subodh Kumar, and S. C. Bhardwaj
11. Recent Advances in CRISPR-Cas for Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Cereals
Sachin Phogat, Ankur Poudel, Alka Bharati, Amresh Kumar, and P. K. Mandal
12. Recent Advances in CRISPR/Cas9 for Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Vegetable Crops
Vishal Dinkar, Amar Kant Kushwaha, Ashish Kumar Singh, Kuleshwar Prasad Sahu, Sayantan Sarkar, Alka Bharati, Amarjeet Kumar, and Badal Singh
13. Recent Advances in CRISPR-Cas for Climate-Resilient Horticulture in Fruits Crops
Geeta Prasad, Divya Chauhan, Himanshu Pandey, Devendra Singh, Vivek Kumar Dhiman, and Vinay Kumar Dhiman
PART IV: CLIMATE-RESILIENT AGRICULTURE: SUCCESS STORIES
14. Designing the Modern Crop Genome Architecture by Harnessing the Genes from Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs): A Population Genetics and Genomics Perspective
Prasanta Kumar Majhi, Biswaranjan Patra, Partha Pratim Behera, Tanmaya Kumar Bhoi, Aalok Shiv, Devraj Lenka, Ashutosh Purohit, and Ayaz Ahamad
15. Breeding and Molecular Mechanism of Drought Stress in Maize
Amarjeet Kumar, Alka Bharati, Ajay Kumar Chandra, Sneha Adhikari, Anjali Joshi, Love Kumar, Vishal Dinkar, Ashutosh Singh, and H. G. Kencharaddi
16. Next-Generation Breeding for Heat Stress Improvement in Maize
Suresh H. Antre, Saumya Kumari, A. E. Sunil Subramanya, and Ashutosh Singh
Biography
Ashutosh Singh, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies on Climate Change at Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Bihar, India. He has more than eight years of experience in different areas of plant biotechnology aspects, including plant stress biology, pollen-based selection, molecular marker studies, etc. Currently, he is working on transcriptomic profiling and the development of gene-based markers for pollen selection mediated reproductive stage heat stress tolerance in maize. He has published more than a dozen research papers in various journals of international repute, as well as book chapters and popular articles.
Saurabh Pandey, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agriculture in Guru Nanak Dev University, Punjab, India. He has eight years of experience in plant biotechnology aspects, such as plant stress biology, plant virus interactions, abiotic stresses, biofortification, molecular marker studies, and metabolism related to the tomato and rice crop. Currently, he is working on the introduction and biotic stress management of unconventional crops like banana and apple. He has published research papers in journals of international repute as well as articles in magazines and periodicals. Dr. Pandey has authored many book chapters on molecular markers, genomics, plant breeding, and plant molecular virology, catering to the needs of modern agriculture research.
