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Using accessible farming practices to meet the growing demands on agriculture is likely to result in more intense competition for natural resources, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and further deforestation and land degradation, which will in turn produce additional stress in the soil-water-plant-animal continuum. Stress refers to any unfavorable force or condition that inhibits customary functioning in plants. Concurrent manifestations of different stresses (biotic and abiotic) are very frequent in the environment of plants, which consequently reduces yield. Better understanding stress not only changes our perspective on the current environment, but can also bring a wealth of benefits, like improving sustainable agriculture and human beings' living standards. Innovative systems are called for that protect and enhance the natural resource base, while increasing productivity via 'holistic' approaches, such as agroecology, agro-forestry, climate-smart agriculture and conservation agriculture, which also incorporate indigenous and traditional knowledge. The book 'New Frontiers in Stress Management for Durable Agriculture' details the current state of knowledge and highlights scientific advances concerning novel aspects of plant biology research on stress, biotic and abiotic stress responses, as well as emergent amelioration and reclamation technologies to restore normal functioning in agroecology.
Using accessible farming practices to meet the growing demands on agriculture is likely to result in more intense competition for natural resources, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and further deforestation and land degradation, which will in turn produce additional stress in the soil-water-plant-animal continuum. Stress refers to any unfavorable force or condition that inhibits customary functioning in plants. Concurrent manifestations of different stresses (biotic and abiotic) are very frequent in the environment of plants, which consequently reduces yield.
Better understanding stress not only changes our perspective on the current environment, but can also bring a wealth of benefits, like improving sustainable agriculture and human beings’ living standards. Innovative systems are called for that protect and enhance the natural resource base, while increasing productivity via ‘holistic’ approaches, such as agroecology, agro-forestry, climate-smart agriculture and conservation agriculture, which also incorporate indigenous and traditional knowledge. The book ‘New Frontiers in Stress Management for Durable Agriculture’ details the current state of knowledge and highlights scientific advances concerning novel aspects of plant biology research on stress, biotic and abiotic stress responses, as well as emergent amelioration and reclamation technologies to restore normal functioning in agroecology.
Part 1. Abiotic stress response in plants and approaches towards mitigation.- Chapter 1. Physiological responses and resilience of plants to climate change.- Chapter 2. Allelopathy: Implications in Natural and Managed Ecosystems.- Chapter 3. Effect of Drought Stress on Crop Production.- Chapter 4. Impact of salinity stress in crop plants and mitigation strategies.- Chapter 5. Sustainable production of Rice under sodicity stress condition.- Chapter 6. Chilling stress during postharvest storage of fruits and vegetables.- Chapter 7. Chemical stress on plants.- Chapter 8. Role of ionizing radiation-induced mutations in the development of rice cultivars.- Chapter 9. Adverse Effect of Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants Metabolic Systems and Biotechnological Approaches for Its Tolerance Mechanism.- Chapter 10. Crop growth under heavy metals stress and its mitigation.- Chapter 11. Conservation of Tropical Agriculture in the era of Changing Climate.- Chapter 12. Alleviation of abiotic stress by Non-conventional plant growth regulators in plant physiology.- Chapter 13. Use of different agronomic practices to minimize ozone injury in plants: A step towards Sustainable Agriculture.- Chapter 14. Micro-nutrient seed priming: A pragmatic approach towards abiotic stress management. Chapter 15. Bioactive Compost: An approach for managing plant growth in environmentally stressed soils.- Chapter 16. Seed priming: Implicationin Agriculture to Manage Salinity Stress in Crops.- Chapter 17. Application of nano-particles in agriculture as fertilizers and pesticides: challenges and opportunities.- Chapter 18. Phenomics assisted breeding: An emerging way for stress management.- Chapter 19. Prediction of Climate Change using Statistical Downscaling Techniques.Part 2. Improving crops resistance to biotic stress.- Chapter 20. Microbial Bio-agents in Agriculture: Current status and Prospects.- Chapter 21. Application of plant-volatile mediated signalingin sustainable agriculture.- Chapter 22. Biological host response: a paradigm and strategy to overcome biotic stress caused by powdery mildew causalagents in plants.- Chapter 23. CRISPR/Cas9-edited rice: a new frontier for sustainable agriculture.Part 3. Research highlights in different crops.- Chapter 24. Agronomic Interventions for Drought Management in Crops.- Chapter 25. Flower crops response to biotic and abiotic stresses.- Chapter 26. Begomovirus menance and its management in vegetable crops.- Chapter 27. Management of abiotic stresses in vegetable crops.- Chapter 28. Realizing the potential of coastal flood-prone areas for rice production in West Bengal: prospects and challenges.- Chapter 29. Mechanisms of abiotic stress tolerance and their management strategies in fruit crops.- Chapter 30. Biotic Stress Management in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) through Conventional and Molecular Approaches.- Chapter 31. System of Assured Rice Production inkharif: A resource-conserving and climate-resilient methodology for higher productivity and profitability.
