Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops. Challenges and Mitigation Strategies

Table of Contents

1. Horticultural crops and abiotic stress challenges2. Conventional breeding approaches for abiotic stresses management in horticultural crops3. Hybrids and abiotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops4. Speed breeding: a powerful tool for mitigating abiotic stresses5. Marker assisted breeding for abiotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops6. Epigenetics in horticultural crops: consequences and application in abiotic stress tolerance7. Functional genomics approaches for combating the effect of abiotic stresses8. Crosstalk between miRNA and plant abiotic stresses9. Molecular chaperones: a key player for combating the effect of abiotic stresses10. Transcription Factors: A tool box for countering the effect of abiotic stresses11. Physiological and biochemical approaches for mitigating the effect of abiotic stresses12. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of drought stress13. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of cold stress14. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of salt stress15. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of metal stress16. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of water logging stress17. Advancement in transgenics for combating abiotic stresses 18. Signalling responses and their role in the mitigation of abiotic stresses19. Role of phytohormones as master regulators during the abiotic stresses20. Proteomics approaches in horticultural crops for abiotic stress tolerance21. Whole genome sequencing in horticultural crops: towards mitigating the abiotic stresses22. Use of modern physical tools for mitigating the effect of abiotic stresses

Authors

Ajay Kumar Professor, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, India. Dr. Ajay Kumar is a Professor at the Amity Institute of Biotechnology in India. He has published extensively in leading International and National journals or books. He has wide area of research experience, especially in the field of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Microbial biocontrol, and Endophytes related with the medicinal plants, Postharvest management of fruits. Dr. Kumar has published more than 165 research articles including review papers/book chapters/ books in the leading international journals. He is serving as special issue editors in some journals like "Frontiers in Microbiology, Microorganism� etc. In addition also acting as reviewer in some leading journals like Frontiers group, PLOS ONE, Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Biological Control, Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 3Biotech etc. Dr, Kumar has edited several books with leading publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor and Francis. Avinash Chandra Rai Dr. Avinash Chandra Rai is currently working as a visiting scientist at Agriculture Research Organization, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel. Dr. Rai has been completed his Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology from Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is currently serving as a visiting Scientist in Institute of Plant Sciences, Agricultural Research Organization-The Volcani Centre, Israel. He has more than thirteen years of research experience, particularly in the area of plant molecular biology and plant physiology. His research interest is in deciphering the insights of plant abiotic stresses with the applications of molecular and physiological tools. He also has a keen interest in emerging environmental and physiological issues of crop plants. He is currently working to see the effect of auxin and ethylene in the process of abscission in mango and find out the role of essential gene involved in the pathways mechanism in abscission of fruit. Dr. Rai has more than seventeen research articles and book chapters in journals of national and international repute to his credit. He is a lifetime member of the Biotech Research Society of India (BRSI) and Society of vegetable Sciences, India. He is also the recipient of Young Scientist Associate award from Bioved Research Society, Allahabad, India in 2016. He has also actively participated in many national and international conferences, symposia and workshops related to his research field in India and abroad. Ashutosh Rai Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Jakhini (Shahanshapur), Varanasi, India. Dr. Ashutosh Rai, Ph.D. Applied Biochemistry from the Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has more than fourteen years of research experience, particularly in the area of plant molecular biology and biochemistry. He has specific interest in the field of transcriptional modulations for stress tolerance in plants. He is currently serving as DST/SERB-National Post Doctoral Fellow for identification of functional microsatellites markers linked to fungal resistance in chili at Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, India. Krishna Kumar Rai Molecular Biology Section, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. Dr. Krishna Kumar Rai is Senior Researcher in the Department of Botany, Centre of Advanced Study, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has obtained his Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology from Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He has served more than six years as Senior Research Fellow in DBT/ICAR funded projects at Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, where he has worked on deciphering physiological, biochemical and molecular mechanisms linked to biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in tomato and Indian bean plants. Dr. Rai is currently working on the identification of novel stress responsive genes/hypothetical proteins in cyanobacteria Anabaena PCC 7120. Ved Prakash Rai Dr. Ved Prakash Rai Assistant Research Scientist at Agricultural Research Station, Navsari Agricultural University, Tanchha, Bharuch, Gujarat, India. He completed his doctoral research from the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has fourteen years of research experience in the area of molecular breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses in pepper, rice, wheat and pulse crops. Presently, he is working on abiotic stress tolerance in pulse and vegetable crops.