Climate-Resilient Crops Challenges and Opportunities

Section 1. Important Cash Crops

1.     Breeding Climate-ready Rice

Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Farrukh Azeem, Tooba Shahid, and Sammina Mehmood

2.     High-temperature Tolerance in Cotton 

Sajid Majeed, Aneeq ur Rehman, Iqar Ahmad Rana, Çetin Karademir, Emine Karademir, Daniel K.Y. Tan, and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar

3.     Hemp as An Environmentally Friendly Crop

Eleni Tsaliki, A. Kalivas, and I. Ganopoulos

4.     Breeding Climate-resilient Oilseed Crops

Sidra Iqbal, Ahmed Raza, Muhammad Junaid, Mehwish Kanwal, and Muhammad Rizwan Shafiq

5.     Modern Breeding Strategies for Heat Tolerance in Solanaceous Crops

Fatima Sajal, Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Zulfiqar Ali, Sadia Hakeem, Muhammad Ali Sher, Nadia Ayub, and Mubashir Ali

Section 2. Risk Assessment Strategies

6.     Selection Criteria for Assessment of Drought Tolerance on Physio-morphic Attributes

Kashif Rashid, Husnain Rauf, and Muhammad Azam Khan

7.     Climate Change and Stress Mitigation Strategies in Plants

Hamna Maqsood, Rabia Nasir Khan, Fiaz Rasul, Muhammad Hussnain Siddique, Habibullah Nadeem, Muhammad Bilal, and Ijaz Rasul

8.     Sweetpotato and Climate Resilience: Strategies and Prospects 

Wei Tanga, Dandan Wanga, Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, and Qiang Li

Section 3. Agronomic/Management Practices

9.     Plant Metabolites and Climate Resilience: Challenges and Solutions

Asima Rasheed, Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Asad Ali Shah, Muhammad Hussnain Siddique, Muhammad Zubair, and Farrukh Azeem

10.  Breeding for Stress Tolerance in Crops

Muhammad Shehzad, Furqan Ahmad, Akhtar Hameed, Shoaib ur Rehman, Kashif Noor, Saba Yaseen and Zulqarnain Khan

Section 4. Techniques for Climate Mitigation

11.  Mitigation of Climate Change Impacts Through the Development of Genetically Modified Crops

Muhammad Tayyab, Ali Ijaz Ahmed, Ayesha Javed, Muhammad Tahseen Azhar, Sultan Habibullah Khan, Rana Muhammad Atif, and Iqrar Ahmad Rana

12.  New Frontiers in Meiotic Recombination to Develop Climate-resilient Crops

Zeeshan Shamin Allah Bakhsh, Muhammad Naveed Shahid, Muhammad Arshad Javed, Adil Jamal, and Sue J. Armstrong

13.  Pre-breeding to Genetic Engineering; A Prospectus of Developing Climate-resilient Wheat.

Hafiz Muhammad Wasif Ali, Sawaira Ashraf, Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, Attiqa Saleem, and Muhammad Ahsan Khan

14.  Use of Molecular Breeding to Develop Climate-ready Crops

Zeshan Hassan, Azhar Abbas Khan, Umbreen Shehzad, Asad Azeem, Sadia Zainab, Mahlka Mukhtar, Zeba Shehnaz, and Zahid Manzoor

Biography

Muhammad Tehseen Azhar is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Plan Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, his primary responsibility is teaching to graduate and post-graduate classes. In addition, his focus is the screening and development of segregating populations resulting in the development of several lines of cotton with higher yield and improved fiber quality traits. Dr Azhar has specific interest in the development of cotton germplasm with tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. 

Zulfiqar Ali is a Professor at the Department of Plan Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Prof. Ali completed his PhD from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and postdoctoral studies from Plant Breeding Institute at University of Sydney (2007–2008) and Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences Nanjing (2009–2011).

Muhammad Azam Khan is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He is primarily engaged in the teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students. He studied genetics and genomics of host plant resistance to fungal diseases in his PhD.