Climate-Resilient Crops: Challenges and Opportunities offers a clear and concise guide to the development of crops that can withstand the increasing threats of climate change.
Climate-Resilient Crops: Challenges and Opportunities offers a clear and concise guide to the development of crops that can withstand the increasing threats of climate change. With rising global temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, this book highlights innovative approaches in breeding, biotechnology, and crop management to meet future food demands.
Covering a range of important crops—including cereals, oilseeds, fiber, and vegetables—the book integrates current research on stress tolerance, genetic resource utilization, root systems, and the role of plant metabolites. It also explores cutting-edge tools such as omics and genome editing for crop improvement.
Designed for students, young researchers, and agricultural professionals, this book delivers practical insights into how science can contribute to climate-smart agriculture. By bridging gaps between disciplines and highlighting new breeding strategies, it serves as a valuable resource for those working to build sustainable food systems in an era of climate uncertainty.
Section
1. Important Cash Crops
1. Breeding Climate Ready Rice
Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Farrukh Azeem, Tooba Shahid, and Sammina
Mehmood
2. High temperature tolerance in cotton
Sajid Majeed, Aneeq ur Rehman, Iqar Ahmad Rana, Çetin Karademir, Emine
Karademir, Daniel KY Tan and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar
3. Hemp as an environmentally friendly crop
Eleni Tsaliki, A. Kalivas, and I. Ganopoulos
4. Climate Resilient Oilseed crops
Sidra Iqbal, Ahmed Raza, Muhammad Junaid, Mehwish Kanwal, and Muhammad Rizwan
Shafiq
5. Modern breeding strategies for heat tolerance in solanaceous crops
Fatima Sajal, Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Zulfiqar Ali, Sadia Hakeem,
Muhammad Ali Sher, Nadia Ayub, and Mubashir Ali
Section
2. Risk Assessment Strategies
6. Selection criteria for assessment of drought tolerance on physio-morphic
attributes
Kashif Rashid, Husnain Rauf, and Muhammad Azam Khan
7. Climate change and stress mitigation strategies in plants
Hamna Maqsood, Rabia Nasir Khan, Fiaz Rasul, Muhammad Hussnain Siddique,
Habibullah Nadeem, Muhammad Bilal, and Ijaz Rasul
8. Sweet potato and Climate Resilience: Strategies and Prospects
Wei Tanga, Dandan Wanga, Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, and Qiang Li
Section
3. Agronomic/Management Practices
9. Plant Metabolites and Climate Resilience: Challenges and Solutions
Asima Rasheed, Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Asad Ali Shah, Muhammad Hussnain
Siddique, Muhammad Zubair, and Farrukh Azeem
10. Breeding for Stress Tolerance in Crops
Muhammad Shehzad, Furqan Ahmad, Akhtar Hameed, Shoaib ur Rehman, Kashif Noor,
Saba Yaseen and Zulqarnain Khan
Section
4. Techniques for Climate mitigation
11. Mitigation of climate change impacts through the development of
Genetically Modified Crops
Muhammad Tayyab, Ali Ijaz Ahmed, Ayesha Javed, Muhammad Tahseen Azhar, Sultan
Habibullah Khan, Rana Muhammad Atif, and Iqrar Ahmad Rana
12. New Frontiers in Meiotic Recombination to develop Climate Resilient
Crops
Zeeshan Shamin Allah Bakhsh, Muhammad Naveed Shahid, Muhammad Arshad Javed,
Adil Jamal, and Sue J. Armstrong
13. Pre-breeding to genetic engineering; A prospectus of developing climate
resilient wheat.
Hafiz Muhammad Wasif Ali, Sawaira Ashraf, Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, Attiqa
Saleem, and Muhammad Ahsan Khan
14. Use of molecular breeding to develop climate ready crops
Zeshan Hassan, Azhar Abbas Khan, Umbreen Shehzad, Asad Azeem, Sadia Zainab,
Mahlka Mukhtar, Zeba Shehnaz, and Zahid Manzoor
Muhammad Tehseen Azhar is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Plan Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, his primary responsibility is teaching to graduate and post-graduate classes. In addition, his focus is the screening and development of segregating populations resulting in the development of several lines of cotton with higher yield and improved fiber quality traits. Dr Azhar has specific interest in the development of cotton germplasm with tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses.
Zulfiqar Ali is a Professor at the Department of Plan Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Prof. Ali completed his PhD from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and postdoctoral studies from Plant Breeding Institute at University of Sydney (20072008) and Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences Nanjing (20092011).
Muhammad Azam Khan is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He is primarily engaged in the teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students. He studied genetics and genomics of host plant resistance to fungal diseases in his PhD.
