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Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance
Volume 2 - A Sustainable Approach
Implement the use of novel technologies to increase crop production within various adverse conditions
Parvaiz Ahmad (Edited by), Saiema Rasool (Edited by)
9780128008751
Hardback, published 26 June 2014
544 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.1 cm, 1.43 kg
Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance: Volume II - A Sustainable Approach helps readers take technological measures to alleviate plant stress and improve crop production in various environmental conditions. This resource provides a comprehensive review of how technology can be implemented to improve plant stress tolerance to increase productivity and meet the agricultural needs of the growing human population. The book considers issues of deforestation, disease prevention, climate change and drought, water and land management, and more. It will help any scientist better understand environmental stresses to improve resource management within a world of limited resources.
1. Physiological mechanisms and adaptation strategies 2. Deforestation 3. Trace elements in alleviating environmental stress 4. Plant response to metal stress and role of plant growth hormones 5. Endophytic microbes in mitigation of abiotic stress tolerance 6. Silicon and Selenium 7. Prevention crop plant diseases under a changing environment 8. Climate changes and potential impacts of fruit and vegetable crops 9. Genotypic variation for drought tolerance 10. Biotic stress and crop improvement 11. Soil pollutants; effect and detoxification 12. Soluble humic substances in metabolism and productivity 13. Water and land management for crop improvement
Subject Areas: Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Botany & plant sciences [PST]
