Footprints of Climate Variability on Plant Diversity
by Shah Fahad, Muhammad Adnan, Shah Saud
Current trends in population
growth suggest that global food production is unlikely to meet future
demands under projected climate change scenarios unless the pace of
plant improvement is accelerated. Plant production is facing many
challenges due to changing environmental conditions and the growing
demand for new plant-derived materials. These challenges come at a time
when plant science is making significant progress in understanding the
basic processes of plant growth and development. Major abiotic
stresses like drought, heat, cold and salinity often cause a range of
morphological, physiological, biochemical, and molecular changes
affecting plant growth, development, and productivity; so sustainable
food production poses a serious challenge to much of the world,
particularly in emerging countries. This underscores the urgent need to
find better ways to translate new advances in plant science into
concrete successes in agricultural production. In order to overcome the
negative effects of abiotic stress and to maintain food security in
the face of these challenges, new, improved, and resilient plant
varieties, contemporary breeding techniques, and a deep understanding
of the mechanisms for offsetting harmful climate change are undoubtedly
necessary. In this context, Improvement of Plant Production in the Era
of Climate Change is a guide to the most advanced techniques that help
in understanding plant response to abiotic stress, leading to new
horizons and the strategy for the current translation studies
application to overall solution to create a powerful production and
crop improvement in such an adverse environment.
FEATURES
- Provides
a state-of-the-art description of the physiological, biochemical, and
molecular-level understanding of abiotic stress in plants
- Courses
taught in universities from basics to advanced level in field of plant
physiology, molecular genetics, and bioinformatics will use this book
- Focuses
on climatic extremes and their management for plant protection and
production, which is great threat to future generation and food
security
- Understanding of new
techniques pointed out in this book will open the possibility of
genetic engineering in crop plants with the concomitant improved stress
tolerance
- Addressing factors that are threatening future food production and providing potential solutions to these factors
- Written
by a diverse group of internationally famed scholars, this book adds
new horizons in the field of abiotic stress tolerance
English | 2023 | PDF | 14 MB | 293 Pages
ISBNs: 1032260718, 978-1032260716, 9781032260716, B0B2M6BVZX
