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    • Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought, and Heat Stress

      • 1st Edition
      • March 1, 2026
      • M. Naeem + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Agricultural Biostimulants for Mitigation of Salt, Drought and Heat Stress provides up-to-date information on sustainable strategies to enhance the resilience of agricultural crops under adverse environmental conditions. As part of the Biostimulants and Protective Biochemical Agents series, this volume focuses on high-impact challenges and emerging opportunities in crop stress management.Biostimul... represent a promising and effective approach to achieving sustainable agriculture. Widely regarded as renewable sources of plant nutrients, they can enhance crop productivity and improve soil health. Over the past decade, there has been growing interest in the use of diverse biostimulants—includ... plant growth-promoting fungi, rhizobacteria, seaweed extracts, and organic amendments—to increase nutrient use efficiency and boost plant tolerance to abiotic stresses.This book covers a range of key biostimulant categories such as bacteria, algae, plant growth regulators (PGRs), plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), biochar, and other core approaches. It explores how specific biostimulants contribute to protecting and enhancing plant health and is the first comprehensive reference to focus exclusively on their role in safeguarding crop yields under salt, drought, and heat stress conditions.

    • Crop Physiology

      • 3rd Edition
      • December 1, 2025
      • Ignacio Ciampitti + 3 more
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Crop Physiology: Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy in Diverse Cropping Systems, Third Edition, provides updated perspectives on crop science at the interface of plant breeding and agronomy. It builds on the premise that farmers rely on two key sets of tools: varieties (what to grow) and practices (how to grow). Within this context, crop physiology plays a central role in guiding both breeding strategies and agronomic decisions.This edition is designed for researchers and advanced students interested in the fundamentals of crop ecophysiology, including the use and efficiency of water, nitrogen, and carbon, as well as crop adaptation to environmental stresses such as heat, frost, drought, waterlogging, phosphorous, and biological nitrogen fixation. The volume brings together region-specific insights, with detailed chapters on physiological traits and processes that underpin crop performance and productivity in diverse systems.

    • Sorghum and Millets

      • 3rd Edition
      • July 25, 2025
      • John Taylor + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      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
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      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.Biostimul... 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
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      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
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      Approx.434 pages

    • Metal and Nutrient Transporters in Abiotic Stress

      • 1st Edition
      • April 8, 2021
      • Aryadeep Roychoudhury + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      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
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      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.

    • Fruit Crops

      • 1st Edition
      • November 27, 2019
      • Anoop Kumar Srivastava + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      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-fert... 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
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      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.