Engineering Tolerance in Crop Plants Against Abiotic Stress

<p>Despite significant progress in increasing agricultural production meeting the changing dietary preferences and increasing food demands of future populations remains a significant challenge. Salinity drought water logging high temperature and toxicity are abiotic stresses that affect the crop yield and production. Tolerance for stress is a important characteristic that plants need to have in order to survive. Identification of proper techniques at a proper time can make it easy for scientists to increase crop productivity and yield. In <i>Engineering Tolerance in Crop Plants against Abiotic Stress</i> we have discussed the possible stresses and their impact on crops and portrayed distinctive abiotic stress tolerance in response to different techniques that can improve the performance of crops.</p><p>Features of the Book:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Provide a state-of-the-art description of the physiological biochemical and molecular status of the understanding of abiotic stress in plants.</li> <p> </p> <li>Address factors that threaten future food production and provide potential solution to these factors.</li> <p> </p> <li>Designed to cater to the needs of the students engaged in the field of environmental sciences soil sciences agricultural microbiology plant pathology and agronomy.</li> <p> </p> <li>New strategies for better crop productivity and yield.</li> <p> </p> <li>Understanding new techniques pointed out in this book will open the possibility of genetic engineering in crop plants with the concomitant improved stress tolerance.</li> </ul>