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Crop Stress and its Management: Perspectives and Strategies (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Crop Stress and its Management: Perspectives and Strategies (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Crops experience an assortment of environmental stresses which
include abiotic viz., drought, water logging, salinity, extremes of
temperature, high variability in radiation, subtle but perceptible
changes in atmospheric gases and biotic viz., insects, birds, other
pests, weeds, pathogens (viruses and other microbes). The ability
to tolerate or adapt and overwinter by effectively countering these
stresses is a very multifaceted phenomenon. In addition, the
inability to do so which renders the crops susceptible is again the
result of various exogenous and endogenous interactions in the
ecosystem. Both biotic and abiotic stresses occur at various stages
of plant development and frequently more than one stress
concurrently affects the crop. Stresses result in both universal
and definite effects on plant growth and development. One of the
imposing tasks for the crop researchers globally is to distinguish
and to diminish effects of these stress factors on the performance
of crop plants, especially with respect to yield and quality of
harvested products. This is of special significance in view of the
impending climate change, with complex consequences for
economically profitable and ecologically and environmentally sound
global agriculture. The challenge at the hands of the crop
scientist in such a scenario is to promote a competitive and
multifunctional agriculture, leading to the production of highly
nourishing, healthy and secure food and animal feed as well as raw
materials for a wide variety of industrial applications. In order
to successfully meet this challenge researchers have to understand
the various aspects of these stresses in view of the current
development from molecules to ecosystems. The book will focus on
broad research areas in relation to these stresses which are in the
forefront in contemporary crop stress research.
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