
Improving Cereal Productivity through Climate Smart Practices
- 1st Edition - November 24, 2020
- Editors: Sindhu Sareen, Pradeep Sharma, Charan Singh, Poonam Jasrotia, Gyanendra Pratap Singh, Ashok Kumar Sarial
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 1 3 1 6 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 6 3 0 - 8
Improving Cereal Productivity through Climate Smart Practices is based on the presentations of the 4th International Group Meeting on "Wheat productivity enhancement through climat… Read more

- Encompasses the possible impact of climate change and future strategies to enhance wheat production on a sustainable basis
- Explores the genetic manipulation of wheat to mitigate the effects of climate change
- Includes both biotic and abiotic stresses and their management under changing climate
Wheat and barley researchers, students and faculty of universities and policy makers for framing guidelines of ensuring food and nutritional security at the global level
Part 1: Genetic manipulations
1. New technology and introgression strategies are enabling the systematic exploitation of genetic variation from wild relatives for exploitation in the production of high-yielding wheat varieties adapted to environmental change
2. Genetic manipulation of wheat for different quality traits
3. Induced Mutagenesis to Sustain Wheat Production under Changing Climate
4, Innovations and New Horizons in Chromosome Elimination- Mediated DH Breeding: Five-Decade Journey of Speed Breeding in Wheat
5. Harnessing the Genetic Variation from Wild Triticum and Aegilops Species for Broadening Wheat Gene Pool for Biotic Stress Resistance
6. Potential of biofortified wheat to alleviate hidden hunger
7. A decade of progress on genetic enhancement and development of climate resilient biofortified wheat with enhanced micronutrient concentration
8. Improving nutritional quality of wheat: challenges and progress
PART II: Biotic and Abiotic Stresses
9. Taming the Beast-Wheat Blast Disease
10. Wheat rust research- impact, thrusts and road map to sustained wheat production
11. Dynamic wheats for the abiotic conditions of future farming systems: Whole plant traits and selection tools for breeding and management
12. Field crop breeding for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses at ICARDA: Achievements and Prospects
13. Mitigating abiotic stress for enhancing wheat productivity
14. Phenomics to accelerate wheat improvement in agro-ecosystems challenged by abiotic stresses: Focus on unexplored adaptive traits to stabilize yield
Part III: Resource Management and Impact of Climate Change
15. Climate Smart Agriculture in Intensive Wheat Based Systems of South Asia
16. Wheat productivity enhancement through climate smart practices
17. Resource Optimization for Enhanced Wheat Productivity
18. Wheat productivity enhancement through climate smart practices
19. Optimization of resources for sustainable wheat productivity and enhanced profitability
20. Sustainability is crucial to guard wheat productivity enhancement in the era of climate change
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 24, 2020
- Language: English
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Sindhu Sareen
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Pradeep Sharma
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Charan Singh
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Poonam Jasrotia
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Gyanendra Pratap Singh
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