Advances in Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
- 2nd Edition - August 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita, Kamrun Nahar, Jiban Krishna Biswas
- Language: English
Rice production is increasingly challenged by abiotic stresses—such as extreme temperatures, drought, salinity, and flooding—which undermine both yield and grain quality. Ta… Read more
Rice production is increasingly challenged by abiotic stresses—such as extreme temperatures, drought, salinity, and flooding—which undermine both yield and grain quality. Tackling these constraints is crucial for global food security and depends on improved farming practices, the development of resilient cultivars, and the adoption of emerging technologies.
Advances of Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Second Edition integrates new research across multiple fronts, including advances in genetic markers, modern breeding approaches, and biotechnological tools. It updates readers on cutting‑edge methodologies to mitigate climate‑related impacts and introduces expanded content on microbiome‑driven resilience, sustainable cultivation and intensification techniques, and genome‑editing applications that enhance crop performance under environmental stress.
By capturing current global trends alongside practical solutions in rice science, the volume serves researchers, educators, and professionals working across agronomy, plant physiology, molecular biology, soil science, and related disciplines.
Advances of Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Second Edition integrates new research across multiple fronts, including advances in genetic markers, modern breeding approaches, and biotechnological tools. It updates readers on cutting‑edge methodologies to mitigate climate‑related impacts and introduces expanded content on microbiome‑driven resilience, sustainable cultivation and intensification techniques, and genome‑editing applications that enhance crop performance under environmental stress.
By capturing current global trends alongside practical solutions in rice science, the volume serves researchers, educators, and professionals working across agronomy, plant physiology, molecular biology, soil science, and related disciplines.
- Synthesizes multidisciplinary findings to provide a unified foundation for advancing robust and adaptable rice cultivation
- Draws together diverse stress‑response studies, enabling a holistic understanding of how rice performs across contrasting environmental constraints
- Highlights evidence-based approaches that illuminate practical ways for strengthening production systems in the era of climate change
Graduate students, educators, researchers, and practicing professionals in agriculture, agronomy, botany, plant physiology, environmental science, and food science.
1. Managing abiotic stresses with rice agriculture to achieve sustainable food security: Bangladesh dilemma
2. Growth and Morphological Alteration of Rice under Major Abiotic Stresses
3. Effects of Salinity on Rice and Rice Weeds: Short- and Long-Term Adaptation Strategies and Weed Management
4. Drought Stress and its Management in Rice: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Adaptive Strategies
5. Hotter Climates, Smarter Rice: Coping with Heat Stress Through Adaptive Reprogramming and Tolerance
6. Coping with Cold: How Rice Responds and Survives
7. Flooding Stress in Rice under Climate Change: Physiological Responses and Tolerance Mechanisms
8. Metal and Metalloid Toxicity in Rice: Stress Responses and Mitigation Strategies
9. Aluminum Sensitivity in Rice: An Underlying Molecular Insight for Tolerance with Reference to Transcriptional And Epigenetic Regulations
10. Strategies to Reduce Arsenic Stress in Rice: Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Perspectives
11. Abiotic Stress- Induced Oxidative Stress in Rice: Mechanisms and Mitigation Strategies
12. Engineering of Abiotic Stress Tolerance by Modulating Antioxidant Defense Systems
13. Harnessing Biostimulants to Mitigate Salt Stress Damage in Rice
14. Enhancing rice resilience to abiotic stress: The role of osmolytes
15. Responses of Biofertilizers for Sustainable Rice Production Under Different Abiotic Stresses
16. Agronomic Approaches to Improve Rice Production Under Abiotic Stress
17. Seed Priming with Phytohormone to Mitigate Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
18. Nanoparticles as Emerging Tools for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
19. Nano-Enabled Biochar Composites and Native Fungal Symbionts for Arsenic Immobilization in Anaerobic Flooded Deltaic Rice Soils
20. Molecular Tools and Strategies to Improve Abiotic Stress Resilience in Rice: Recent Progress and Future Directions
21. Proteomics and Post-Translational Modifications of Heat Stress-Associated Proteins in Rice
22. Developing Rice (Oryza sativa) Tolerance to Abiotic Stress Through Gene Editing Technologies
23. Biotechnology for Enhancing Rice Tolerance to Abiotic Stress
24. From Conventional Breeding to Gene Editing: Advances in Biotechnological Strategies for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
25. Strategies for Salt Stress Tolerance in Rice: Breeding to Genome Editing
26. Climate Resilient Rice Crop Improvement Using CRISPR-Cas Technology
27. Epigenetic Modulation of FKBP12-Dependent Pathways in Drought-Induced Oxidative Stress Resilience in Upland Rice Genotypes
28. Plant Probiotic Bacteria Enhance Rice Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses
29. Advances in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi application for abiotic stress tolerance in rice
30. Climate Change and Socioeconomic Disturbance in Rice Production
31. Phytohormone-Mediated Improvement of Salt Stress Tolerance in Rice
32. Seed Priming in Rice: A Promising Tool for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance
2. Growth and Morphological Alteration of Rice under Major Abiotic Stresses
3. Effects of Salinity on Rice and Rice Weeds: Short- and Long-Term Adaptation Strategies and Weed Management
4. Drought Stress and its Management in Rice: Mechanisms, Impacts, and Adaptive Strategies
5. Hotter Climates, Smarter Rice: Coping with Heat Stress Through Adaptive Reprogramming and Tolerance
6. Coping with Cold: How Rice Responds and Survives
7. Flooding Stress in Rice under Climate Change: Physiological Responses and Tolerance Mechanisms
8. Metal and Metalloid Toxicity in Rice: Stress Responses and Mitigation Strategies
9. Aluminum Sensitivity in Rice: An Underlying Molecular Insight for Tolerance with Reference to Transcriptional And Epigenetic Regulations
10. Strategies to Reduce Arsenic Stress in Rice: Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Perspectives
11. Abiotic Stress- Induced Oxidative Stress in Rice: Mechanisms and Mitigation Strategies
12. Engineering of Abiotic Stress Tolerance by Modulating Antioxidant Defense Systems
13. Harnessing Biostimulants to Mitigate Salt Stress Damage in Rice
14. Enhancing rice resilience to abiotic stress: The role of osmolytes
15. Responses of Biofertilizers for Sustainable Rice Production Under Different Abiotic Stresses
16. Agronomic Approaches to Improve Rice Production Under Abiotic Stress
17. Seed Priming with Phytohormone to Mitigate Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
18. Nanoparticles as Emerging Tools for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
19. Nano-Enabled Biochar Composites and Native Fungal Symbionts for Arsenic Immobilization in Anaerobic Flooded Deltaic Rice Soils
20. Molecular Tools and Strategies to Improve Abiotic Stress Resilience in Rice: Recent Progress and Future Directions
21. Proteomics and Post-Translational Modifications of Heat Stress-Associated Proteins in Rice
22. Developing Rice (Oryza sativa) Tolerance to Abiotic Stress Through Gene Editing Technologies
23. Biotechnology for Enhancing Rice Tolerance to Abiotic Stress
24. From Conventional Breeding to Gene Editing: Advances in Biotechnological Strategies for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
25. Strategies for Salt Stress Tolerance in Rice: Breeding to Genome Editing
26. Climate Resilient Rice Crop Improvement Using CRISPR-Cas Technology
27. Epigenetic Modulation of FKBP12-Dependent Pathways in Drought-Induced Oxidative Stress Resilience in Upland Rice Genotypes
28. Plant Probiotic Bacteria Enhance Rice Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses
29. Advances in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi application for abiotic stress tolerance in rice
30. Climate Change and Socioeconomic Disturbance in Rice Production
31. Phytohormone-Mediated Improvement of Salt Stress Tolerance in Rice
32. Seed Priming in Rice: A Promising Tool for Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance
- Edition: 2
- Latest edition
- Published: August 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Mirza Hasanuzzaman
Mirza Hasanuzzaman is Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka. He is a specialist in agronomy, plant stress responses, and crop physiology. His current work is focused on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of environmental stress tolerance (salinity, drought, flood, and heavy metals/metalloids). Dr. Hasanuzzaman has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has edited six books and written 30 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress tolerance, and crop production.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, BangladeshMF
Masayuki Fujita
Masayuki Fujita is a Professor in the Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and his M.Agr. and Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research interests include physiological, biochemical and molecular biological responses based on secondary metabolism in plants under biotic (pathogenic fungal infection) and abiotic (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures and heavy metals) stresses; phytoalexin, cytochrome P-450, glutathione S-transferase, phytochelatin and redox reaction and antioxidants. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has multiple books.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, JapanKN
Kamrun Nahar
Kamrun Nahar is a leading plant stress physiologist and Professor of Agricultural Botany at Sher‑e‑Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She began her academic career at the same institution in 2011 and rose to the rank of Professor in 2021. Her research focuses on the physiological and biochemical mechanisms that enhance plant resilience to abiotic stresses, including drought, waterlogging, salinity, metal toxicity, and extreme temperatures, with particular emphasis on antioxidant and glyoxalase pathways. Prof. Nahar earned her Ph.D. in Environmental Stress Physiology from Ehime University, Japan, and completed her Master’s degree at Kagawa University, both supported by Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarships. She has received numerous distinctions, including the BAS Gold Medal Award (2017), multiple academic merit awards, and national research fellowships. A BAS Associate Fellow since 2021, she continues to supervise graduate researchers and lead projects funded by national research bodies.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, BangladeshJB
Jiban Krishna Biswas
Recognized with prestigious national awards for his leadership in rice science, Jiban Krishna Biswas is a distinguished plant physiologist with more than 33 years of experience in research and development. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF), having previously held the role from 2020 to 2022 and rejoining in November 2022. An agricultural graduate from SAU and BAU, he earned his PhD in Crop Science from CLSU, Philippines, supported by an IRRI‑USAID fellowship, and completed postdoctoral research under JSPS in Japan. Dr. Biswas has led major research, administrative, and policy roles, including serving as Director General of the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute until his retirement in 2016. His work spans the development of abiotic stress‑tolerant rice varieties, research management, and extensive consultancy for national and international organizations.
Affiliations and expertise
Former Director General, Department of Plant Physiology, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh