
Wheat Wild Relatives
Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance under Climate Change
- 1st Edition - June 2, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Mohd. Kamran Khan, Anamika Pandey, Mehmet Hamurcu, Sait Gezgin
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 0 9 0 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 2 0 8 9 - 0
Wheat Wild Relatives: Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance under Climate Change presents a state-of-the-art outline of the problem, including issues, opportunities, and modern de… Read more
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Wheat Wild Relatives: Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance under Climate Change presents a state-of-the-art outline of the problem, including issues, opportunities, and modern developments in the utilization of Wild Wheat Relatives (WWR) and related neglected species for wheat crop improvement, specifically focusing on environmental constraints. The book comprehensively discusses different wheat wild relatives, including major genus Triticum and Aegilops and their utilization in mitigating different environmental constraints using agronomic, physiological, and molecular approaches. Chapters provide insights into the advancement in the deployment of wheat genetic resources, including wild relatives and neglected species for crop improvement towards environmental issues.
Wheat is a major staple food crop that has largely been focused for fulfilling the food requirements of world population during the Green revolution. Since then, it has come to cover more agricultural land than any other commercial crop. Continuously changing climatic conditions have drastically affected wheat production, with yields largely limited by environmental constraints. Theses production losses caused by crop vulnerability to climate change may be resolved by using wheat wild relatives that are closely related to cultivated genotypes and known for their beneficial traits.
- Covers a variety of wheat genetic resources, including wheat wild relatives (WWR) and neglected wheat species
- Describes advances in agronomic, biochemical, physiological, and molecular approaches to counter the effect of individual environmental issues of drought, heat, salt, cold, nutrients, and heavy metals constraints
- Explores the benefits of contemporary biotechnological tools, including whole genome sequencing and genome editing
- Insight into the Wheat Genetic Resources with emphasis on {i|Aegilops} and {i|Triticum} species
- Exploring Genetic Variation for Environmental Stress Tolerance in Wheat Wild Relatives using Molecular Markers
- Advancement in Genome Sequencing of Wheat Wild Relatives
- Potential of Wild Relatives of Wheat: Ideal Gene Pool for Enhancing Drought Tolerance in Modern Wheat Cultivars
- Wheat wild relatives: An Untapped Genetic Resource for Improvement of Cold Tolerance in Wheat
- Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Heat Tolerance
- Potential of Wheat Wild Species for Salinity Tolerance Improvement in Modern Wheat
- Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for improving Boron Stress Tolerance
- Agronomic, Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Approaches employed for Successful Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for Crop Improvement
- Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for Iron and Zinc Improvement in Wheat Crops
- Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for Improving Ozone Stress Tolerance
- Utilization of Wheat Wild Relatives for Improving Heavy Metals Stress Tolerance
- Use of Wild Relatives in Breeding Programs to Develop Climate Resilient Wheat
- Use of Wheat Wild Relatives to Improve End-use Quality in a Continuously Changing Climate Scenario
- Utilization of Perennial Wheat Wild Relatives for Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Modern Wheat Genotypes
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 2, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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Mohd. Kamran Khan
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Anamika Pandey
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Mehmet Hamurcu
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