Improving cereal productivity through climate smart practices /

Improving Cereal Productivity through Climate Smart Practices is based on the presentations of the 4th International Group Meeting on "Wheat productivity enhancement through climate smart practices," and moves beyond the presentations to provide additional depth and breadth on this importa...

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Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors:	Sareen, Sindhu (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Duxford : Woodhead Publishing, 2021.
Subjects:	Grain. Crops and climate. Edible Grain Céréales. Cultures et climat. grain (seed) Crops and climate Grain Electronic books.
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Front Cover
IMPROVING CEREAL PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH CLIMATE SMART PRACTICES
IMPROVING CEREAL PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH CLIMATE SMART PRACTICES
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
I
Breeding strategies and quality enhancement under climate change scenario
1
Innovations and new horizons in chromosome elimination-mediated DH breeding: five decades journey of speed bree ...
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Doubled haploidy breeding in wheat
1.2.1 Mechanisms involved in uniparental chromosome elimination
1.3 Techniques involved in chromosome elimination-mediated doubled haploidy breeding
1.4 Novel protocols developed for enhancing doubled haploid induction in wheat × I. cylindrica-mediated chromosome elimination ...
1.5 Chromosome doubling for production of homozygous plants from haploids
1.6 Molecular cytogenetic techniques assisted assessment of chromosome elimination of Imperata cylindrica under wheat background
1.7 Application of doubled haploids in wheat improvement
1.8 Conclusion
Acknowledgment
References
2
Speed breeding
a climate smart tool to accelerate research in wheat
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Speed breeding
shape up
2.3 SB for generation advancement
2.4 SB for rust phenotyping
2.5 Leaf rust
2.6 Stem rust
2.7 SB
integration with other approaches
2.8 SB
comparison
2.9 SB
limitations
Acknowledgments
References
3
Induced mutagenesis to sustain wheat production under changing climate
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Isolation of mutations for different traits and their role to enhance productivity
3.2.1 Reduced height
3.2.2 Heat and drought tolerance
3.2.3 Quality traits
3.2.4 Disease resistance
3.2.5 Herbicide tolerance
3.2.6 Yield and yield components
3.3 Mutant variety development
3.3.1 Popularity of mutant varieties.
3.4 Mutation breeding work at BARC
3.4.1 Rust resistance
3.4.2 Preharvest sprouting (PHS) tolerance
3.4.3 Drought tolerance
3.4.4 Dwarf
3.4.5 Early maturity
3.4.6 Herbicide tolerance
3.5 Advances in induced mutagenesis
3.5.1 Targeting Induced Local Lesions In Genomes (TILLING) in wheat
3.5.2 Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-genome editing tool in wheat
References
4
Improving nutritional quality of wheat under changing climate scenario: challenges and progress
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Micronutrient content in wheat
4.2.1 Agronomic manipulation for enhancing nutritional quality of wheat
4.3 Genetic manipulation for enhancing nutritional quality of wheat
4.3.1 Status and strategies to increase RS
4.4 Conclusion
References
5
Zinc biofortified wheat-addressing micronutrient malnutrition in South Asia
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The evidence to date: progress in breeding for high-Zn wheat
5.3 Mainstreaming Zn biofortified wheat
5.4 Breeding approach
5.5 Genomics in biofortification breeding
5.6 The energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) spectrometer for elemental analysis
5.7 Effect of climate change on grain Fe and Zn in wheat
5.8 Reaching out to farmers and consumers with high-Zn wheat
5.9 Conclusion and future perspective
References
6
Potential of biofortified wheat to alleviate hidden hunger
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Why to biofortify wheat in India?
6.3 Cultivar development strategy
6.4 Nutritional bioavailability and efficacy evidence
6.5 Current status and future prospects for biofortified wheat cultivars
6.6 Way forward to eradicate malnutrition in India
6.7 Conclusions
References
II
Abiotic stresses in relation to climate change.
7
Genomics, molecular breeding, and phenomics approaches for improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in wheat
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Response of plants to various abiotic stresses
7.3 Advancements in genomics
7.4 Plant hormones and candidate hub genes regulating flag leaf senescence
7.5 Molecular breeding approaches
7.6 Phenomics for high-throughput evaluation of traits
7.7 Genome editing using CRISPR/Cas system
7.8 Conclusion and future prospectus
References
8
Prospection of heat tolerance in the context of global warming in wheat for food security
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Global warming and wheat production
8.3 Heat stress
8.4 Heat tolerance mechanism
8.5 Breeding strategies for heat tolerance
8.5.1 Canopy temperature
8.5.2 Chlorophyll content and chlorophyll fluorescence
8.5.3 Grain yield and component traits
8.6 Genetic diversity for heat tolerance
8.7 Conventional breeding approaches
8.8 Modern breeding approaches
8.9 Adoptive strategies for heat stress tolerance
8.10 Future prospective
References
9
Role of chlormequat chloride and salicylic acid in improving cereal crops production under saline conditions
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Plant growth regulators
9.2.1 Salicylic acid as growth promoter
9.2.2 Chlormequat chloride a growth retardant
9.3 Presowing seed treatment
9.3.1 Chlormequat chloride (CCC)
9.3.2 Salicylic acid (SA)
9.4 Foliar application of chlormequat chloride (CCC)
9.4.1 Role of chlormequat chloride (CCC) in improving crop yield
9.4.2 Role of CCC in improving morphological characters
9.4.3 Role of CCC in improving physiological and biochemical attributes
9.4.4 Improving salinity tolerance
9.5 Foliar application of SA
9.5.1 Role of SA in improving growth and yield.
9.5.2 Role of SA in improving physiological and biochemical attributes
9.6 Practical aspects
9.7 Conclusion and research gaps
References
10
Mitigating abiotic stress for enhancing wheat productivity
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Mitigation
10.2.1 Conventional breeding approaches
10.2.1.1 Physiological breeding
10.2.2 Molecular approaches
10.2.2.1 Genetics and genomics approaches for abiotic stress in wheat
10.2.3 Mitigation of abiotic stresses through management
10.2.3.1 Nutrient management
10.2.3.2 Use of exogenous protectants
10.2.3.3 Bacterial seed treatment
10.3 Conclusion and future prospects
References
III
Biotic stresses in changing climate scenario
11
Wheat rust research: impact, thrusts, and roadmap to sustained wheat production
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The wheat rusts
11.3 Research progress
11.3.1 Disease epidemiology
11.3.2 Physiological specialization, population biology, genetic analysis, and genomics
11.3.2.1 Population biology and genetic analysis
11.3.2.2 Pathogen genomics
11.3.3 Host-pathogen interactions
11.3.4 Management of wheat rusts
11.3.4.1 Genetic control
11.3.4.2 Alternative approaches for wheat rust management
11.4 Challenges in wheat rust research under changing climate scenario
11.5 Conclusion and future perspective
References
12
Beating the beast-wheat blast disease
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Effect of climate change on the impact of biotic stresses
12.3 WB vulnerability of the world
12.4 Causal organism, loss caused, economic and quarantine importance
12.4.1 History, pathogen origin, and evolution of wheat blast
12.4.2 Pathogen variability, host range, and host shuttling
12.4.3 Epidemiology and disease cycle
12.4.4 Disease development, management, and diagnosis.
12.4.5 Genetic resistance mechanism, sources, and variability
12.5 The 2NS-based resistance to WB
12.6 The nonhost resistance (NHR)
12.7 Germplasm screening and varietal breeding for WB
12.7.1 The success story of WB-resistant variety BARI Gom 33
12.7.2 Genome editing/CRISPR (CAS9) assay for enhancement of WB resistance
12.7.3 The potential threat and mitigation of WB in the Indian context
12.8 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
13
Impact of climate change on insect pests of rice-wheat cropping system: recent trends and mitigation strategies
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Insect pests prevalent in rice-wheat cropping system
13.3 Response of insect pests and their natural enemies to climate change
13.4 Species distribution, abundance, and migration
13.5 Population dynamics, outbreaks, and invasion
13.6 Insect phenology, development, and voltinism
13.7 Overwintering survival
13.8 Impact on natural enemies
13.9 Climate change and insect-host interaction
13.10 Mitigation strategies to control crop losses due to pests owing to climate change
13.11 Conclusion and future prospects
References
IV
Resource management and impact of climate change
14
Vulnerability of wheat production to climate change
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Climate change and wheat production
14.3 Factors responsible for climate change
14.4 Visualizing the climate change impact on wheat crop
14.4.1 Erratic behavior of the ambient temperature and rainfall
14.4.2 Poor seed and grain quality
14.4.3 Altered pest and disease dynamics
14.4.4 Climate change and its impact on Indian wheat production
14.5 Strategic research to mitigate the impact of climate change on wheat
14.5.1 Conservation agriculture (CA)
14.5.2 Climate smart agriculture
14.5.3 Biotechnological approaches
14.6 Conclusion.