Sustainable Agriculture under Drought Stress
Integrated Soil, Water and Nutrient Management
- 1st Edition - October 18, 2024
- Latest edition
- Editors: Hassan Etesami, Yinglong Chen
- Language: English
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Description
Description
Sustainable Agriculture under Drought Stress: Integrated Soil, Water and Nutrient Management seamlessly blends cutting-edge research with practical applications, offering a unique perspective on tackling this urgent challenge. Through a multidisciplinary lens, this book provides a cohesive and comprehensive understanding of both the current landscape and future prospects. Readers will find this book equips them with the knowledge and strategies required to manage soil nutrients and water effectively, ensuring the health of both soil and plants, especially in arid and semi-arid regions, where solutions are urgently needed.
This book offers actionable insights into mitigating the impacts of climate change on agricultural systems, making it essential reading for anyone invested in sustainable land management and food security.
Key features
Key features
- Clarifies mechanisms and proposes solutions for enhancing soil health and fertility, irrigation management, and crop production in drought-stressed environments
- Presents a diverse array of options for responding to drought stress, optimizing plant health and furthering sustainability
- Explores emerging cropping systems and opportunities
Readership
Readership
Researchers and advanced students in agricultural, soil, water and plant sciences, Industry research and development in agriculture, irrigation and soil health
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Impact of climate change and drought stress on arid land agriculture
2. Growing water scarcity in agriculture: Future challenge to global water security
3. Wastewater reuse, water conservation and management in semi-arid and arid lands for sustainable agriculture
4. Strategies for deficit irrigation of crops
5. New approaches to irrigation scheduling of agronomic crops
6. A Contribution to soil fertility assessment for arid and semi-arid lands
7. Sustainable crops to cope with water scarcity and low nutritional demand
8. Sustainable fruit trees to cope with water scarcity and low nutritional demand
9. Impacts of climate change/drought stress on plant Metabolome
10. Impacts of drought on disease development and management
Section 2: Linking water stress and crop nutrition
11. Problems of soil nutrient availability for crop production under drought stress
12. Effects of drought stress on soil nitrogen cycling
13. Plant growth under drought stress: Significance of mineral nutrients
14. Novel aspects of fertilization in arid and semiarid regions
Section 3: Improving the soil fertility under drought conditions
15. Improving the efficiency of nutrient transfer from fertilizers under drought conditions
16. Changes of soil microbial, physical and chemical characteristics under drought stress
17. The impact of drought stress on soil microbial community, enzyme activities and microbial diversity
18. Drought stress and root-Associated bacterial communities
19. Drought stress and root-Associated fungal communities
20. Dynamics of soil fertility management practices in arid and semi-arid regions
21. Soil fertility management for cereal crops in semi-arid and arid conditions
22. Improving soil fertility and moisture in arid and semi-arid regions using organic amendments
Section 4: Positive Interactions between crops and soil microorganisms to enhance the drought tolerance
23. Reclamation of arid and semi-arid soils: The role of plant growth-promoting archaea and bacteria
24. Reclamation of arid and semi-arid soils: The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
25. Improved soil water retention and reduced evaporation in drought-stressed agriculture by soil beneficial microbes
26. Rhizosphere engineering for managing agriculture in arid and semi-arid regions
Section 5: Crop physiological and yield responses to water stress
27. Effect of soil drought on plant root systems and nutrient availability
28. Plant drought stress tolerance: understanding its physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms
29. Crop root responses to drought stress: Molecular mechanisms, nutrient regulations, and interactions with microorganisms in the rhizosphere
30. Water management in irrigated rice: coping with water scarcity
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 25, 2024
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
HE
Hassan Etesami
YC
Yinglong Chen
Dr. Yinglong Chen is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at The University of Western Australia. With over 30 years of research experience, Dr. Chen’s work focuses on the structure and functions of plant roots and rhizosphere interactions. Through the development of innovative phenotyping platforms, he has pioneered world-first studies that characterize root trait variability across diverse germplasms in major food crops and their responses to environmental stressors. Dr. Chen has authored over 400 publications, including 11 authored books. His extensive body of work and leadership in editorial roles underscore his commitment to advancing agricultural science and fostering innovation in the field.