Books in Crop physiology and biochemistry

Advances in Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

2nd Edition
October 1, 2025
Mirza Hasanuzzaman + 3 more
English

Advances of Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Second Edition provides an updated, comprehensive, and globally relevant resource that reflects the latest scientific advancements in the area, addressing the challenges posed by climate change, providing insights into the technological advancements toward addressing them, and exploring the socio-economic, and policy aspects related to rice cultivation under abiotic stress. Rice faces significant abiotic stress challenges which substantially impact yield and quality. These stresses include extreme temperatures, drought, salinity, and flooding, and each presents unique challenges to the crop's growth and survival. Addressing these abiotic stresses is vital for ensuring food security, necessitating advancements in agricultural practices, breeding of stress-tolerant varieties, and innovative farming techniques. Significant advancements in the field of rice research, particularly regarding abiotic stress tolerance include new understanding of genetic markers, innovative breeding techniques, and cutting-edge biotechnological interventions. This second edition incorporate these latest findings, ensuring that the book remains a current and valuable resource. It comprehensively addresses these challenges, providing readers with updated strategies and methodologies to mitigate the effects of climate change on rice production. Including new areas of research, such as the role of microbiomes in abiotic stress tolerance, sustainable and eco-friendly farming practices, other topics included are tools for genome editing and technologies for improved yield and quality. Addressing the latest global trends, challenges, and solutions in rice research makes the book globally relevant and useful for a wide range of audiences, including researchers, educators, and practitioners in the field of agriculture.

Sorghum and Millets

3rd Edition
July 1, 2025
John Taylor + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 3 9 5 4 0
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 2 3 9 5 5 7

Sorghum and Millets: Chemistry, Technology, and Nutritional Attributes, Third Edition is the leading resource for state-of-art knowledge on grain science and utilization surrounding sorghum and millets. The book covers important scientific knowledge, including basic science—genetics, chemistry, and biochemistry—food chemistry, nutritional quality and health-promoting attributes, agronomy, and food and feed processing technologies. Other sections delve into structure, chemistry, biochemistry, grain components, and the technologies used for food processing. Additionally, it provides holistic and complete information about all technologies in the sorghum and millets food value chain, from genomics-based breeding to grain- and product quality assurance.Sorghum and the millets are the 5th and 6th most important cereal grains in terms of production and are cultivated across the world. They have a very wide range of end-uses as traditional staple foods and beverages, modern processed foods, and with respect to sorghum, industrial applications, including biofuels, and as an animal and aquaculture feedstuff.

Biostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield

1st Edition
January 29, 2025
Shubhpriya Gupta + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 2 0 7 0
eBook
9 7 8 0 4 4 3 1 3 2 0 8 7

Biostimulants for Improving Reproductive Growth and Crop Yield highlights their importance as a mechanism, specifically for this result. Intended to transform the latest scientific research into practical application, the book focuses on the effects of biostimulants on flower and fruit development and set, early flowering, pollen viability, germination, and other reproductive aspects. It covers a sustainable approach in utilization of these promising biostimulants in agriculture, horticulture, and floriculture for better productivity, and to feed a growing world population.Biostimulants are a group of substances of natural origin and/or microorganisms that offers the potential to reduce the dependency on harmful chemical fertilizers that cause environmental degradation. The application of biostimulants represents one of the most innovative and promising strategies to improve crop productivity.

Biofortification of Grain and Vegetable Crops

1st Edition
November 28, 2023
Muhammad Tehseen Azhar + 3 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 1 7 3 5 3
eBook
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 7 2 1 4 7

Biofortification of Grain and Vegetable Crops: Molecular and Breeding Approaches is a comprehensive overview of important food crops whose vitamin and mineral enhancement can contribute significantly to improved food and nutrition security. Providing the latest information on crops including cereals, oilseeds, legumes and vegetables, this book provides details of agronomic and molecular resources for enhanced mineral production. Each chapter focuses on a specific food crop and the unique opportunities offered by each through breeding practices. This will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics and those in industry who are exploring biotechnological approaches as a powerful tool to combat malnutrition.

Abiotic Stresses in Wheat

1st Edition
January 11, 2023
Mohd. Kamran Khan + 4 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 5 3 6 8 9
eBook
9 7 8 0 3 2 3 9 5 8 1 2 7

Approx.434 pages

Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress

1st Edition
April 8, 2021
Aryadeep Roychoudhury + 2 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 7 9 5 5 0
eBook
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 7 9 5 6 7

Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress focuses on the different forms of environmental stress related to heavy metal, metalloid and nutrient deficiency that have the potential to inflict major damages to crop plants, leading to a massive decrease in crop yield and productivity. The book presents the current state of knowledge of the biochemical and molecular regulation of several classes of membrane transporters related to the uptake of metals/metalloids and nutrient elements during different stresses and their probable mechanisms of operation in plant stress tolerance. Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress provides a comprehensive discussion that will help in mitigating multiple forms of stresses utilizing transporter proteins. Edited by leading experts and written by a global team of knowledgeable contributors, this book will further stimulate research in the field of transporter proteins and will foster further interests for researchers, academicians and scientists worldwide. It is complimented by its companion book titled Transporters and Plant Osmotic Stress.

Crop Physiology Case Histories for Major Crops

1st Edition
December 5, 2020
Victor Sadras + 1 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 9 1 9 4 1
eBook
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 9 1 9 5 8

Crop Physiology: Case Histories of Major Crops updates the physiology of broad-acre crops with a focus on the genetic, environmental and management drivers of development, capture and efficiency in the use of radiation, water and nutrients, the formation of yield and aspects of quality. These physiological process are presented in a double context of challenges and solutions. The challenges to increase plant-based food, fodder, fiber and energy against the backdrop of population increase, climate change, dietary choices and declining public funding for research and development in agriculture are unprecedented and urgent. The proximal technological solutions to these challenges are genetic improvement and agronomy. Hence, the premise of the book is that crop physiology is most valuable when it engages meaningfully with breeding and agronomy. With contributions from 92 leading scientists from around the world, each chapter deals with a crop: maize, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum and oat; quinoa; soybean, field pea, chickpea, peanut, common bean, lentil, lupin and faba bean; sunflower and canola; potato, cassava, sugar beet and sugarcane; and cotton.

The Genus Citrus

1st Edition
January 21, 2020
Manuel Talon + 2 more
English
Hardback
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 2 1 6 3 4
eBook
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 2 2 1 7 4

The Genus Citrus presents the enormous amount of new knowledge that has been generated in recent years on nearly all topics related to citrus. Beginning with an overview of the fundamental principles and understanding of citrus biology and behavior, the book provides a comprehensive view from Citrus evolution to current market importance. Reporting on new insights supported by the elucidation of the citrus genome sequence, it presents groundbreaking theories and fills in previous knowledge gaps. Because citrus is among the most difficult plants to improve through traditional breeding, citrus researchers, institutions and industries must quickly learn to adapt to new developments, knowledge and technologies to address the biological constraints of a unique fruit-tree such as citrus. Despite the challenges of working with citrus, tremendous progress has been made, mostly through advances in molecular biology and genomics. This book is valuable for all those involved with researching and advancing, producing, processing, and delivering citrus products.

Fruit Crops

1st Edition
November 27, 2019
Anoop Kumar Srivastava + 1 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 8 7 3 2 6
eBook
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 8 7 2 6 5

Fruit Crops: Diagnosis and Management of Nutrient Constraints is the first and only resource to holistically relate fruits as a nutritional source for human health to the state-of-the-art methodologies currently used to diagnose and manage nutritional constraints placed on those fruits. This book explores a variety of advanced management techniques, including open field hydroponic, fertigation/bio-fertigation, the use of nano-fertilizers, sensors-based nutrient management, climate- smart integrated soil fertility management, inoculation with microbial consortium, and endophytes backed up by ecophysiology of fruit crops. These intricate issues are effectively presented, including real-world applications and future insights.

Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improving Resistance to Biotic Stress

1st Edition
September 17, 2019
Palmiro Poltronieri + 1 more
English
Paperback
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 6 0 3 0 5
eBook
9 7 8 0 1 2 8 1 6 0 3 1 2

Applied Plant Biotechnology for Improvement of Resistance to Biotic Stress applies biotechnology insights that seek to improve plant genomes, thus helping them achieve higher resistance and optimal hormone signaling to increase crop yield. The book provides an analysis of the current state-of-the-art in plant biotechnology as applied to improving resistance to biotic stress. In recent years, significant progress has been made towards understanding the interplay between plants and their hosts, particularly the role of plant immunity in regulating, attenuating or neutralizing invading pathogens. As a result, there is a great need to integrate these insights with methods from biotechnology.

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