Climate Smart Crops
Enhancing Resilience and Adaptation
- 1st Edition - July 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Vimal Chandra Pandey, Vijai Singh
- Language: English
Climate Smart Crops: Enhancing Resilience and Adaptation is a comprehensive overview of modern technologies and strategies to improve plants in terms of food, feed, fodder, fiber,… Read more
Climate Smart Crops: Enhancing Resilience and Adaptation is a comprehensive overview of modern technologies and strategies to improve plants in terms of food, feed, fodder, fiber, and fuel production for human well-being in the face of climate change. With a focus on the latest advances in plant molecular mapping and genome sequencing, the book demonstrates how genomics-assisted strategies can be utilized to produce improved plants with climate-smart traits. Significant successes in the areas of molecular breeding, transgenics, and genomics have contributed to revolutionary modifications in cereal-vegetable-fruit-oilseed crop-improvement strategies and methods, but there is still work to be done.
As understanding the strategies and approaches that are most appropriate for enhancing production is key to effective, efficient, and timely advancement of further crop yield quality and quantity through crop genetics, genomics, breeding, biotechnology, and in the disciplines of agronomy, agriculture, agroforestry, horticulture and phytoremediation, this book provides an excellent basis for the current state-of-the- science for climate smart crops to inspire future research.
As understanding the strategies and approaches that are most appropriate for enhancing production is key to effective, efficient, and timely advancement of further crop yield quality and quantity through crop genetics, genomics, breeding, biotechnology, and in the disciplines of agronomy, agriculture, agroforestry, horticulture and phytoremediation, this book provides an excellent basis for the current state-of-the- science for climate smart crops to inspire future research.
- Describes technology developments to address climate change impacts
- Focuses on CRISPR-Cas9 for improved crop yield and disease management
- Addresses fundamental effects on crops by changing climate
Researchers, agricultural and plant scientists, crop plant breeders
SECTION 1: Current trends, tools and policies to make climate smart crops
1. Synthetic biology for smart crops designing to adapt climate change
2. Potential of genome designing for producing climate resilient crops
3. Patents, ethics and regulatory issues to design climate smart plants
4. “Biosafety of Genome Editing Applications in developing resilient crops”
SECTION 2: Resilience and adaptation of crops to climate change
5. Designing climate resilient traits in crops via genomics-assisted breeding strategies
6. Genome editing for designing climate-resilient fibre crops
7. Genome editing in medicinal and aromatic plants
8. Innovations in plant genomics adapting floriculture to climate change
9. Climate resilient fodder crops via genome engineering
10. Climate-resilient rice cropping system via CRISPR-Cas Systems
SECTION 3: Phytoremediation enhancement and biofuel revolution
11. Enhanced phytomining by Genome Editing and Transformation
12. Genome editing for adapting energy crops to climate change
13. Genetic Improvement Of biomass producing crops as a potential feedstock
14. Genetic engineering of oilseed crops: possibilities and prospects
15. Genetic improvement of potential plants for phytoremediation programs
SECTION 4: Crop yield improvement and disease management
16. Genome editing for cereal crop yield improvement
17. Oilseed crop yield improvement via CRISPR-Cas systems
18. Pulse crop yield improvement via CRISPR-Cas systems
19. Development of horticultural crops using CRISPR-Cas9 systems
20. Genetic improvement of vegetable crops
21. Genome engineering for virus disease-resistance crop varieties
22. Genome engineering for control of bacterial infections in crops
23. Developing fungal disease-resistant crop varieties by genome editing
1. Synthetic biology for smart crops designing to adapt climate change
2. Potential of genome designing for producing climate resilient crops
3. Patents, ethics and regulatory issues to design climate smart plants
4. “Biosafety of Genome Editing Applications in developing resilient crops”
SECTION 2: Resilience and adaptation of crops to climate change
5. Designing climate resilient traits in crops via genomics-assisted breeding strategies
6. Genome editing for designing climate-resilient fibre crops
7. Genome editing in medicinal and aromatic plants
8. Innovations in plant genomics adapting floriculture to climate change
9. Climate resilient fodder crops via genome engineering
10. Climate-resilient rice cropping system via CRISPR-Cas Systems
SECTION 3: Phytoremediation enhancement and biofuel revolution
11. Enhanced phytomining by Genome Editing and Transformation
12. Genome editing for adapting energy crops to climate change
13. Genetic Improvement Of biomass producing crops as a potential feedstock
14. Genetic engineering of oilseed crops: possibilities and prospects
15. Genetic improvement of potential plants for phytoremediation programs
SECTION 4: Crop yield improvement and disease management
16. Genome editing for cereal crop yield improvement
17. Oilseed crop yield improvement via CRISPR-Cas systems
18. Pulse crop yield improvement via CRISPR-Cas systems
19. Development of horticultural crops using CRISPR-Cas9 systems
20. Genetic improvement of vegetable crops
21. Genome engineering for virus disease-resistance crop varieties
22. Genome engineering for control of bacterial infections in crops
23. Developing fungal disease-resistant crop varieties by genome editing
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: July 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Vimal Chandra Pandey
Dr. Vimal Chandra Pandey is an applied research scientist of phyto- and phycoremediation at Chandigarh University, India. He obtained his PhD from Dr. RML Avadh University and conducted post-doctoral research at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India. Dr. Pandey’s research focuses on the remediation and management of polluted sites using ecologically and socio-economically valuable plants and algae. His work focuses strongly on restoring ecosystem services and developing a bio-based economy in support of the UN SDGs. Dr. Pandey is a member of the IUCN commission on Ecosystem Management and the National Academy of Sciences, India. He is the author and editor of several books, including Elsevier’s Algae and Aquatic Macrophytes in Cities, Bioremediation of Pollutants, and more.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Scientist, University Center for Research and Development (UCRD), Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, IndiaVS
Vijai Singh
Prof. Vijai Singh is currently serving as Head of the Department of Biosciences, School of Science and Dean (Research & Innovation) at Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, India. Prior to this, he held the position of Associate Professor in the same department at Indrashil University. He has also served as Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at the Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, and in the Department of Biotechnology at the Invertis University, Bareilly, India. Earlier of his career, Prof. Singh worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Synthetic Biology Group at the Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris, France and at the School of Energy & Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, South Korea. He earned his Ph.D. in Biotechnology in 2009 from the ICAR-National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India. His doctoral research focused on the development of molecular and immunoassays for the diagnosis of Aeromonas hydrophila. Prof. Singh’s research interests lies in the design and construction of novel biosynthetic pathways for production of medically and industrially important biomolecules. His laboratory is also actively engaged in developing CRISPR-Cas systems for gene knock out, knock in, gene regulation and diagnostic. With over 15 years of research and teaching experience, his areas of expertise include synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, bioinformatics, microbiology, and industrial microbiology. He has an extensive academic record, with over 110 articles, 89 book chapters, 26 books and 3 patents to his credits. Prof. Singh has received number of prestigious awards, including the Bioclues Innovation, Research and Development Award (2023) from the BIOCLUES Society, the Vice Chancellor's Best Research Award (2023) from Indrashil University, and the Agathiyar Chemical Biology Award (2023) from the Society of Chemical and Synthetic Biology. At Indrashil University, he currently serves as chairman of the Board of Study, and is a member of the Academic Council of Indrashil University. He also holds the position of the Member Secretary of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBSC) at the university. Dr. Singh is actively involved in national and international scientific advisory roles.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Biosciences, School of Science, Indrashil University, Rajpur, Mehsana, India