Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes Volume 2 /

Abiotic stress drastically limits agricultural crop productivity worldwide. Climate change threatens the sustainable agriculture with its rapid and unpredictable effects, making it difficult for agriculturists and farmers to respond to the challenges cropping up from environmental stresses. In light...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ahmad, Parvaiz. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wani, Mohd Rafiq. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Azooz, Mohamed Mahgoub. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Phan Tran, Lam-Son. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8824-8
Table of Contents:
  • Brassicas: Responses and Tolerance To Heavy Metal Stress
  • Recent Advances in Rapid and Sensitive Screening For Abiotic Stress Tolerance
  • Transcriptomics of Heat Stress in Plants
  • Biotic Stress and Crop Improvement
  • Salt Stress and Sugar Beet Improvement: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Genotypic Variation for Drought Tolerance in Wheat Plants
  • Soil Contaminants: Sources, Effects and Approaches for Remediation
  • Role of Macronutrients in Plant Growth and Acclimation: Recent Advances and Future Prospective
  • Mutation Breeding: A Novel Technique for Genetic Improvement of Pulse Crops Particularly Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
  • Organic Farming: The Return To Nature
  • The Role of Cytological Aberrations in Crop Improvement Through Induced Mutagenesis
  • Wheat Improvement: Historical Perspective and Mutational Approach-A Review
  • Cotton Leaf Curl Virus Disease Predictive Model Based on Environmental Variables
  • Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Responses -Their Potentials in Crop Improvement.