Abiotic Stress Management for Resilient Agriculture

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Minhas, Paramjit Singh (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Rane, Jagadish (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Pasala, Ratna Kumar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Climate change.; Agriculture.; Sustainable development.; Nanotechnology.; Life Sciences.; Climate Change.; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Sustainable Development.

This book offers a state-of-the-art overview of on abiotic stresses in terms of the challenges; scope and opportunities; copping strategies for adaptation and mitigation using novel tools for building resilience in agricultural crops and livestock; as well as for policy implementation. Divided into...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Part 1:   Advances and Prospects for Understanding Stress Environments
• Chapter 1. Abiotic Stresses in Agriculture: An Overview
• Chapter 2. Atmospheric Stressors: Challenges and Coping Strategies
• Chapter 3. Agriculture Drought Management Options: Scope and Opportunities
• Chapter 4. Edaphic Stresses: Concerns and Opportunities for Their Management
• Part 2:   Adaptation and Mitigation Options
• Chapter 5. Managing Soil Related Abiotic Constraints for Sustainable Agriculture
• Chapter 6. Developments in Management of Abiotic Stresses in Dryland Agriculture
• Chapter 7. Heavy Metal Toxicities in Soils and Their Management
• Chapter 8. Current Trends in Salinity and Water logging Tolerance
• Chapter 9. Impacts and Management of Temperature and Water Stress in Crop Plants
• Chapter 10. Plant Bio-regulators: A Mitigation Strategy for Resilient Agriculture
• Chapter 11. Thiourea: A Potential Bioregulator for Alleviating Abiotic Stresses
• Part 3: Crop Based Mitigation Strategies
• Chapter 12. Improving Crop Adaptations to Climate Change: Contextualizing the Strategy
• Chapter 13. Biotechnological Applications for Improvement of Drought Tolerance
• Chapter 14. Managing Abiotic Stresses in Wheat
• Chapter 15. Breeding Rice Varieties for Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Challenges and Opportunities
• Chapter 16. Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Barley
• Chapter 17. Sugarcane crop: Its Tolerance towards Abiotic Stresses
• Chapter 18.Abiotic Stress Management in Horticulture Crops
• Chapter 19. Impact of Climate Change on Vegetable Production and Adaptation Measures
• Part 4:  Mitigation Options in Animal Husbandry
• Chapter 20. Nutritional Management for Sustaining Livestock during Drought
• Chapter 21. Mitigation Options for GHG Emissions from Ruminants
• Chapter 22. Mitigation of Climatic Change Effects for Sheep Farming in Arid Environment
• Chapter 23. Policy Support for Abiotically Stressed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities
• Chapter 24. Inculcating Resilience to Agriculture under Abiotically Stressed Environments: Synthesis and Way Forward.