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  title info:
    title: Crop Production for Agricultural Improvement
  name:
    name part: Ashraf, Muhammad.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Öztürk, Münir.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Ahmad, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Aksoy, Ahmet.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VII, 782 p. 103 illus., 58 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: In the recent years, the looming food scarcity problem has highlighted plant sciences as an emerging discipline committed to devise new strategies for enhanced crop productivity. The major factors causing food scarcity are biotic and abiotic stresses such as plant pathogens, salinity, drought, flooding, nutrient deficiency or toxicity which substantially limit crop productivity world-wide. In this scenario, strategies should be adopted to achieve maximum productivity and economic crop returns. In this book we have mainly focused on physiological, biochemical, molecular and genetic bases of crop development and related approaches that can be used for crop improvement under environmental adversaries. In addition, the adverse effects of different biotic (diseases, pathogens etc.) and abiotic (salinity, drought, high temperatures, metals etc) stresses on crop development and the potential strategies to enhance crop productivity under stressful environments are also discussed.
  table of contents: Crop improvement through different means: Challenges and prospect -- PART I. BREEDING FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT -- Bridging genomic and classical breeding approaches for improving crop productivity -- Breeding for improved drought tolerance -- Breeding for biotic stress resistance/tolerance in plants -- The American halophyte Prosopis strombulifera, a new potential source to confer salt tolerance to crops -- Breeding for Biotic Stress Tolerance in Plants -- Breeding Wheat for Salt Tolerance and Stem Rust Resistance -- The potential of breeding okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) for water stress tolerance -- PART II. BIOTECHNOLOGY , MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS -- Biotechnology as an aid for crop improvement to overcome food shortage -- Plant Genetic Engineering: Problems and Applications -- Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its Use in Plant Biotechnology -- Progress and prospects for efficient micropropagation of woody plants -- Novel Methods in Micropropagation of Pistachio -- Crop productivity and water use efficiency: The role of carbon isotope discrimination technique -- Behaviour of Plant Pathogens for Crops under Stress during the Determination of Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Approaches for Salt Stress Tolerance -- Biochemical and molecular aspects of drought tolerance in wheat Triticum L. Genotypes -- Molecular basis of disease resistance in cereal crops: An overview -- Polyamines: Role in plants under abiotic stress.- PART III. CROP MANAGEMENT -- Practices in Saskatchewan, Canada -- Invasive weed species: A threat to sustainable agriculture -- An overview of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for sustainable agriculture -- Arbuscular mycorrhizae for sustainable agriculture -- A site-specific potassium fertilization approach to overcome sporadic response of crops -- Optimal Supply of Micronutrients Improves Drought Tolerance in Legumes -- Potential of Rhizobia for Sustainable Production of Non-legumes -- Effect of Drip and Subsurface Drip Irrigat…
  note: edited by Muhammad Ashraf, Münir Öztürk, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad, Ahmet Aksoy.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Plant biochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Plant science
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  subject:
    topic: Plant genetics
  subject:
    topic: Plant physiology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Plant Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Plant Genetics & Genomics
  subject:
    topic: Plant Physiology
  subject:
    topic: Plant Biochemistry
  classification: S1-S972
  classification: 630
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      title: Springer eBooks
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