Response of Field Crops to Abiotic Stress Current Status and Future Prospects

Response of Field Crops to Abiotic Stress: Current Status and Future Prospects is a collection of useful scientific resources for students, researchers, and academicians on diverse aspects of abiotic stress responses in field crops. The book provides its readers with a vivid understanding of abiotic stress responses in field crops by covering diverse aspects. It offers exhaustive explanations of the impact and responses of field crops to abiotic stresses. This book offers comprehensive coverage of: Climate change impact on field crops Arsenic and aluminium stress responses in field crops Drought, high temperature, and flooding stress responses in field crops Salinity and osmotic stress responses in field crops Heavy metal stress responses in field crops UV stress responses Elemental biofortification Reactive oxygen species (ROS) metabolism Nutraceutical and human health Computational modelling approaches for abiotic stresses in plants

1. Abiotic Stress Management through Elemental Biofortification in Field Crops - Sudhakar Srivastava, Vartika Jain, andKritika Sinha Nigam. 2. Availing Engineered and Biosynthesized Metal-Based Nanoparticles to Alleviate Abiotic Stress - Monolina Sarkar, Anindita Paul, and Debapriya Rajlakshmi Das. 3. Arsenic Stress Sensitivity, Adaptation, and Mitigation Strategies in Field Crops - Madhu Tiwari, Neelam Gautam, Yuvraj Indoliya, and Debasis Chakrabarty. 4. Heavy Metals' Stress Responses in Field Crops - Munish Kumar Upadhyay and Arnab Majumdar. 5. Chromium Dynamics in Soil-Plant System - Binaya Kumar Pattnaik and Chandan Sahu. 6. Overview on the Effects of Heavy Metals on the Biological Activities of Leavy Vegetables - Diyadyuti Das, Brahmarshi Mondal, Archit Dey, Deepanjan Mridha, and Tarit Roychowdhury. 7. Aluminium Toxicity and Ionic Homeostasis in Plants - Bedabrata Saha, Bhaben Chowardhara, Umakanta Chowra, and Chatan Kumar Panda. 8. Drought and Heat Stress Tolerance in Field Crops: Consequences and Adaptation Strategies - Lalichetti Sagar, Subhashisa Praharaj, Sultan Singh, Meenakshi Attri, Biswajit Pramanick, Sagar Mitra, Akbar Hossian, Tanmoy Shankar, Jnana Bharati Palai, and Upasana Sahoo. 9. Drought and High-Temperature Stress Tolerance in Field Crops - Goutam Kumar Dash, Madhusmita Barik, Soumya Kumar Sahoo, Selukash Parida, Jagdish Jena, Mirza Jaynul Baig, and Padmini Swain. 10. Improving Submergence Tolerance in Rice: Recent Progress and Future Perspective - Debabrata Panda, Jijnasa Barik, and Prafulla K. Behera. 11. Salinity and Osmotic Stress in Field Crops: Effects and Way Out- Dibakar Roy, Pawar Deepak Viswanath, Dasari Sreekanth, Himanshu Mahawar, and Dibakar Ghosh. 12. Compatible Solutes Engineering to Balance Salt (Na+) and ROS-Induced Changes in Potassium Homeostasis - Dipankar Barman, Lekshmy Sathee, Birendra K. Padhan, and Archana Watts. 13. Metabolomics and Molecular Physiology Perspective for Drought and Salinity StressTolerance - Sagar Sudam Jadhav, Renu Kumari, Sanjeet Kumar Mantha, Ravi Kiran Purama, Vinita Lamba, and Gitanjali Jadav. 14. UV Stress in Plants: A Curse in Plant Productivity and Blessing in Food Security - Jayjit Majumdar. 15. Impact of Elevated CO2 and O3 on Field Crops and Adaptive Strategies through Agro-Technology - Arkabanee Mukherjee andSwati Hazra. 16. Role of Apetela2(AP2)/ERF Family Transcription Factors in Stress-Responsive Gene Expression - Chirag Maheshwari, Ibandalin Mawlong, and Aruna Tyagi. 17. Impact of Climate Change on Productivity of Field Crops - Shyamashree Roy andRajiv Rakshit. 18. Impact of Climate Change on Growth and Productivity of Major Field Crops - Sagar Maitra, Triptesh Mondal, Akbar Hossian, Rajesh Shriram Kalasare, Subhashisa Praharaj, Jince Marry Mundonayil Joy, Tanmoy Shankar, Biswajit Pramanick, Martin Leonardo Battaglia, Urjashi Bhattacharya, Marko Zupanic, and Masina Sairam. 19. Growth, Physiology, Yield, and Yield Attributes of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) with Reference to Abiotic Stress - Anuj Kumar Singh, Brajesh Kumar Mishra, Vijai Pandurangam, andJ. P. Srivastava. 20. Micropropagation for Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants: An Overview - Soumen Saha, Khasru Alam, Tanmay Chowdhury, and Parthadeb Ghosh. 21. Traditional Rice Landraces: An Ideal Nutraceutical as a Staple Food for Human Health - Priyabrata Roy andTanima Saha. 22. Computational Modelling and in silico Aproaches in Understanding Abiotic Stress Responses in Field Crops - Ananya Ali. 23. Flood Stress Prevalence and Assessment of Farmers’ Preparedness with Resilient Rice Varieties:A Review in Context of Eastern India - Swati Nayak, Kuntal Das, Malay K Bhowmick, Sk Mosharaf Hossian, Sudhanshu Singh, Uma Maheshwar Singh, andVikar Kumar Singh. 24. Determination and Quantification of Chemical Pollutants by Spectroscopic Techniques: A Possible Use in Chemical Analysis Food Crops under Stress - Subrata Mahanta, Sapana Sinha, and Jaya Shree.

Shuvasish Choudhury is a Ph.D. graduate from Assam University, Silchar, and Assistant Professor of Plant Biology in the Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, India. He is extensively working on understanding the biochemical, molecular, and metabolomic basis of abiotic stress responses and tolerance in field crops. His research interests include arsenic and acid soil stress responses in rice, biochar for arsenic and heavy metal mitigation in agro-ecosystem, and drought stress responses in field crops. His current work focuses on abiotic stress mitigation through nutrient management strategies, seed priming technology, and environmentally sustainable approaches. Debojyoti Moulick is a Ph.D. graduate from University of Kalyani, India, and a Research Associate in the Plant Stress Biology and Metabolomics Laboratory (CIL), Department of Life Science and Bioinformatics, Assam University, Silchar, India, under the Research Associateship (RA) program of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India. His research interest includes understanding agro-ecotoxicology and proposing suitable mitigation of options. He has extensively worked on arsenic stress mitigation in rice using seed priming technology and related mitigation approaches.