Biotic Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops
Challenges and Mitigation Strategies
- 1st Edition - July 25, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editors: Avinash Chandra Rai, Ved Prakash Rai, Ajay Kumar, Gustavo Santoyo, Lucas Carvalho Basilio de Azevedo
- Language: English
Biotic Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies explores concepts, strategies, and recent advancements in the area of biotic stress tolera… Read more
Biotic Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies explores concepts, strategies, and recent advancements in the area of biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops, highlighting the latest advances in molecular breeding, genome sequencing, and functional genomics approaches. The book highlights a variety of aspects of biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops, from classical breeding, hybrid breeding, speed breeding, epigenetics, gene/quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, transgenics, physiological and biochemical approaches to OMICS approaches, including functional genomics, proteomics, and genomics assisted breeding. This volume has been designed to include the advancements mitigating the effects of bacterial, viral, fungal, and insects-pests.
Readers will find this to be a comprehensive resource for anyone working in the field of biotic stress management in horticultural crops, including students, educators, and scientists in industry and academia.
Readers will find this to be a comprehensive resource for anyone working in the field of biotic stress management in horticultural crops, including students, educators, and scientists in industry and academia.
- Highlights recent advances in conventional, physiological, and molecular strategies
- Describes advances in whole genome and next generation sequencing
- Details advanced germplasm tolerance and performance
- Includes the latest OMICS approaches for horticultural crops
Researchers and advanced students in horticultural crop breeding, plant molecular biology, plant biotechnology and stress physiology of horticultural crops
1. Horticultural crops biotic stresses in present climatic scenario
2. Conventional breeding for biotic stress management in horticultural crops
3. Hybrids and biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops
4. Speed breeding for breeding the resistant or tolerant crops
5. Molecular breeding for biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops
6. Epigenetics in horticultural crops: consequences and application in biotic stress tolerance
7. Genomics assisted breeding approaches for biotic stress tolerance
8. Functional genomics approaches for combating the effect of biotic stresses
9. Crosstalk between miRNA and plant biotic stresses
10. Programmed Cell Death in plants: a key player for combating the effect of biotic stresses
11. Transcription Factors: A tool box for countering the effect of biotic stresses
12. Latest molecular and biochemical approaches for mitigating the effects of biotic stresses
13. Current approaches and molecular mechanism in horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of fungal diseases:
14. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of bacterial diseases
15. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of viral diseases
16. Advancement in transgenics for combating biotic stresses
17. Recent applications of biotechnological approaches to elucidate the biology of plant-nematode interactions
18. Role of phytohormones as master regulators during the biotic stresses
19. Use of modern physical tools for mitigating the effect of biotic stresses
2. Conventional breeding for biotic stress management in horticultural crops
3. Hybrids and biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops
4. Speed breeding for breeding the resistant or tolerant crops
5. Molecular breeding for biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops
6. Epigenetics in horticultural crops: consequences and application in biotic stress tolerance
7. Genomics assisted breeding approaches for biotic stress tolerance
8. Functional genomics approaches for combating the effect of biotic stresses
9. Crosstalk between miRNA and plant biotic stresses
10. Programmed Cell Death in plants: a key player for combating the effect of biotic stresses
11. Transcription Factors: A tool box for countering the effect of biotic stresses
12. Latest molecular and biochemical approaches for mitigating the effects of biotic stresses
13. Current approaches and molecular mechanism in horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of fungal diseases:
14. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of bacterial diseases
15. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of viral diseases
16. Advancement in transgenics for combating biotic stresses
17. Recent applications of biotechnological approaches to elucidate the biology of plant-nematode interactions
18. Role of phytohormones as master regulators during the biotic stresses
19. Use of modern physical tools for mitigating the effect of biotic stresses
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: July 25, 2025
- Language: English
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Avinash Chandra Rai
Dr. Avinash Chandra Rai is currently working as a visiting scientist at Agriculture Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel. Dr. Rai has been completed his Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is currently serving as a visiting Scientist in Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization-The Volcani Centre, Israel. He has more than thirteen years of research experience, particularly in the area of plant molecular biology and plant physiology. His research interest is in deciphering the insights of plant abiotic stresses with the applications of molecular and physiological tools. He also has a keen interest in emerging environmental and physiological issues of crop plants. He is currently working to see the effect of auxin and ethylene in the process of abscission in mango and find out the role of essential gene involved in the pathways mechanism in abscission of fruit. Dr. Rai has more than seventeen research articles and book chapters in journals of national and international repute to his credit. He is a lifetime member of the Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI) and Society of vegetable Sciences, India. He is also the recipient of Young Scientist Associate award from Bioved Research Society, Allahabad, India in 2016. He has also actively participated in many national and international conferences, symposia and workshops related to his research field in India and abroad.
Affiliations and expertise
Agriculture Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, IsraelVR
Ved Prakash Rai
Dr. Ved Prakash Rai Assistant Research Scientist at Agricultural Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Tanchha, Bharuch, Gujarat, India. He completed his doctoral research from the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has fourteen years of research experience in the area of molecular breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses in pepper, rice, wheat and pulse crops. Presently, he is working on abiotic stress tolerance in pulse and vegetable crops.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Research Scientist, Agricultural Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Tanchha, Bharuch, Gujarat, IndiaAK
Ajay Kumar
Dr. Ajay Kumar is currently working as an assistant professor at Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. Dr. Kumar recently completed his tenure as a visiting scientist from Agriculture Research Organization, Volcani Center, Israel. He has published more than 175 research, review articles, and book chapters in international and national journals. He serves as an associate editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and as guest editor for various journals such as Plants, Microorganisms, and Sustainability. Dr. Kumar has also edited more than 32 books with the leading publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley. Dr. Kumar has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of plant-microbe Interactions, microbial biocontrol, Postharvest management of fruits, microbial endophytes related to medicinal plants and cyanobacteria-pesticides interactions.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaGS
Gustavo Santoyo
Gustavo Santoyo is a Professor of Agrogenomics at the Institute of Chemical and Biological Research, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico. He holds two BSc degrees, one in Biology and the other in Psychology. He earned his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Dr. Santoyo conducted postdoctoral studies at the Center for Cancer Research, The National Institutes of Health, USA, and was a visiting professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His current research focuses on elucidating plant–soil–microbe interactions and on investigations in agrogenomics. He is a prolific book author/editor and journal reviewer. He serves as a Special Content Editor for Microbiological Research (Elsevier) and as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Plant Sciences (Frontiers), Journal of Advanced Research (Elsevier), and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (Springer). He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and holds the Nivel III distinction in the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores of Mexico. In 2024, he received the State Award for Science, Technology, and Innovation, granted by the Government of the State of Michoacán.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Genomic Diversity Laboratory, Institute of Chemical and Biological Research, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán, MexicoLA
Lucas Carvalho Basilio de Azevedo
Dr. Lucas C. B. Azevedo holds a degree in Agronomy (State University of Londrina, Brazil), MSc in Soil Science (Federal University of Lavras, Brazil), and PhD in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition (University of São Paulo, Brazil), which included an internship at Kansas State University, USA. He was named Assistant Professor at the Federal Institute of Goiás State, Brazil teaching Soil and Environmental Microbiology classes. He was named Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Agricultural Sciences of the Federal University of Uberlândia and is currently Associate Professor teaching the subjects of Soil Microbiology, Bioremediation, and Introduction to Soil Science to undergraduate courses of Agronomy and Environmental Engineering. For graduate courses in Environmental Quality and Agronomy, he has taught Soil Ecology classes. As a researcher, he has studied and collaborated in investigations of soil quality indicators soil microbiology soil contamination and remediation and plant growth promoting microorganisms
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Federal University of Uberland, BrazilRead Biotic Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops on ScienceDirect