Abiotic Stress Management for Resilient Agriculture

Part I. Advances and Prospects for Understanding Stress Environments

1. Abiotic Stresses in Agriculture: An Overview
Paramjit Singh Minhas, Jagadish Rane, Ratna Kumar Pasala

2. Atmospheric Stressors: Challenges and Coping Strategies
Santanu Kumar Bal, Paramjit Singh Minhas

3. Agriculture Drought Management Options: Scope and Opportunities
Jagadish Rane, Paramjit Singh Minhas

4. Edaphic Stresses: Concerns and Opportunities for Management
Paramjit Singh Minhas

Part II. Adaptation and Mitigation Options

5. Soil-Related Abiotic Constraints for Sustainable Agriculture
S. S. Kukal, G. Ravindra Chary, S. M. Virmani

6. Developments in Management of Abiotic Stresses in Dryland Agriculture
Ch. Srinivasarao, Arun K. Shanker, K. A. Gopinath

7. Heavy Metal Toxicities in Soils and Their Remediation
Arvind K. Shukla, Kulasekaran Ramesh, Ritu Nagdev, Saumya Srivastava

8. Current Trends in Salinity and Waterlogging Tolerance
Parbodh C. Sharma, Arvind Kumar, T. V. Vineeth

9. Impacts and Management of Temperature and Water Stress in Crop Plants
Kiruba Shankari Arun-Chinnappa, Lanka Ranawake, Saman Seneweera

10. Plant Bioregulators: A Stress Mitigation Strategy for Resilient Agriculture
Ratna Kumar Pasala, Paramjit Singh Minhas, Goraksha C. Wakchaure

11. Thiourea: A Potential Bioregulator for Alleviating Abiotic Stresses
M. P. Sahu

Part III. Crop Based Mitigation Strategies

12. Improving Crop Adaptations to Climate Change: Contextualizing the Strategy
S. Naresh Kumar

13. Biotechnological Applications for Improvement of Drought Tolerance
Monika Dalal, T. R. Sharma

14. Managing Abiotic Stresses in Wheat
V. Tiwari, H. M. Mamrutha, S. Sareen, S. Sheoran, R. Tiwari, P. Sharma, C. Singh, G. Singh, Jagadish Rane

15. Breeding Rice Varieties for Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Challenges and Opportunities
Vishnu V. Nachimuthu, Robin Sabariappan, Raveendran Muthurajan, Arvind Kumar

16. Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Barley
A. S. Kharub, Jogendra Singh, Chuni Lal, Vishnu Kumar

17. Sugarcane Crop: Its Tolerance Towards Abiotic Stresses
A. K. Shrivastava, A. D. Pathak, Varucha Misra, Sangeeta Srivastava, M. Swapna, S. P. Shukla

18. Abiotic Stress Management in Fruit Crops
R. H. Laxman, R. M. Bhatt

19. Impact of Climate Change on Vegetable Production and Adaptation Measures
Prakash S. Naik, Major Singh, J. K. Ranjan

Part IV. Mitigation Options in Animal Husbandry

20. Nutritional Management: Key to Sustain Livestock in Drought-Prone Areas
N. P. Kurade, B. Sajjanar, A. V. Nirmale, S. S. Pawar, K. T. Sampath

21. Mitigation Options for GHG Emissions from Ruminants
Raghavendra Bhatta, P. K. Malik

22. Mitigation of Climatic Change Effect on Sheep Farming Under Arid Environment
S. M. K. Naqvi, Kalyan De, Davendra Kumar, A. Sahoo

23. Policy Support: Challenges and Opportunities in Abiotically Stressed Agroecosystem
K. Palanisami, T. Mohanasundari, Krishna Reddy Kakumanu

24. Inculcating Resilience to Agriculture Under Abiotically Stressed Environments: Way Forward
Paramjit Singh Minhas, Jagadish Rane, Ratna Kumar Pasala

Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Sustainable Development, Nanotechnology