This book covers different physiological processes, tools, and their application in crop breeding.  Each chapter emphasizes on a specific trait/physiological process and its importance in crop, their phenotyping information and how best it can be employed for crop improvement by projecting on success stories in different crops. It covers wide range of physiological topics including advances in field phenotyping, role of endophytic fungi, metabolomics, application of stable isotopes, high throughput phenomics, transpiration efficiency,  root phenotyping and root exudates for improved resource use efficiency, cuticular wax and its application, advances in photosynthetic studies, leaf spectral reflectance and physiological breeding in hardy crops like millets. This book also covers the futuristic research areas like artificial intelligence and machine learning. This contributed volume compiles all application parts of physiological tools along with their advanced research in these areas, which is very much need of the hour for both academics and researchers for ready reference. This book will be of interest to teachers, researchers, climate change scientists, capacity builders, and policy makers. Also, the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, physiology, botany, ecology, and environmental sciences. National and international agricultural scientists will also find this a useful resource.

The life insurance industry in India has registered an impressive growth since the beginning of 21st century. The market has witnessed dynamic changes including entry of a good number of global players. Life insurance is a big business opportunity in India with a large population and untapped potential. By 2020 financial year, the Indian insurance market is projected to grow six to eight times the size of market in 2010 financial year. Unlike many other commercial products, life insurance goes a long way in providing financial as well as social security to the individuals and their families especially in underdeveloped regions where a significant proportion of population is underprivileged. Hence, there is a greater need to reengineer the life insurance marketing practices in the context of realisation of the overall goal of inclusive development. This book attempts to identify and analyse the marketing practices being adopted by the LIC at the national level with special reference to Mizoram. The study also covers the new players entered in life insurance business. The study's special focus is on the period since 2000, the time new competitors started entering the business.