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This book reviews dynamic relationships between plants and microbes, highlighting their roles in enhancing crop resilience, growth, and productivity. Integrating research and practical insights, the book provides solutions to pressing agricultural challenges, including soil degradation, pest resistance, and nutrient inefficiency. It discusses plant–microbe interactions; regulation of the host–microbe interaction by small RNA molecules and their mechanisms; and applications of sustainable crop production and climate-resilient agriculture. The book covers a broad spectrum of plant–microbe interactions—from root symbioses to shoot colonization—and provides a holistic understanding of how these interactions impact crop health and productivity, helping readers optimize their strategies for improving crop yields and sustainability.Key Features:Ensures a thorough presentation for understanding plant–microbe dynamics—from basic interactions to molecular mechanisms and practical applicationsOffers a comprehensive exploration of how plant–microbe interactions can revolutionize sustainable agriculturePresents innovative strategies for harnessing natural partnerships to improve crop yields and sustainability

Developing climate-smart crops is vital to securing food security around the world. This new book discusses the state-of-the-art technologies that can help to mitigate plant abiotic stresses in cultivated crops. It covers the current aspects of climate-resilience agriculture, including the crucial physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects of cultivated crops under stress conditions, which play a pivotal role in developing climate-smart crops. The volume explores breeding, omics, genetic engineering, bioengineering of metabolic pathways, artificial intelligence, and more.Key features:Addresses the current and future challenges of climate changes on food securityDetails the impact of different biotic, abiotic stresses, along with their interactions and effect on crop plants in climate-changing scenariosGives a comprehensive account of molecular mechanisms associated with different stresses in crop plantsDiscusses advances in breeding and biotechnological techniques to tackle the different stresses in challenging climatic fluctuationsHighlights various emerging approaches and technologies currently being used in developing climate-smart cropsProvides success stories of crop improvement against the different stresses.

The persistence of higher night-time temperatures (HNT) over long periods during the crop cycle can potentially impact a wide range of growth and developmental stages. The major processes drastically affected by night-time warming, such as photosynthesis, respiration, etc., ultimately cause yield and economic losses. Despite this, HNT has not been significantly researched regarding its impact on plants. This new book provides a comprehensive understanding of the physiology of night-time warming, trait responses, advanced tools for phenotyping, and alleviation and mitigation strategies.

Climate change has more impact on the world than just rising temperatures and extreme weatherevents. It also impacts the intricate interactions between organisms, including pests, pathogens, andother biotic factors, which are critical components of the balance maintained in nature. This new bookdelves into the intricate relationship between climate change and the interplay of biotic factors,shedding light on the molecular mechanisms underlying these interactions.

Millets have long been overshadowed by more mainstream crops, yet their potential is vast and largely untapped. This new volume meets an urgent need to raise awareness about the nutritional benefits, processing techniques, crop protection strategies, and breeding tools and techniques for underutilized millets.The volume first provides readers with a foundational understanding of the historical, nutritional, and ecological significance of these grains, setting the stage for a deeper exploration into their underutilized potential and the transformative role they can play in global agriculture.One of the key strengths of this book lies in its commitment to addressing the multifaceted challenges faced by millet cultivation. It goes beyond the traditional narrative, shedding light on pest and disease management strategies crucial for the success of millet crops, providing a holistic and practical guide for farmers and researchers alike.Chapters look at plant protection aspects, covering the gamut of challenges to millet cultivation and production, such as stress from environmental factors, fungal diseases, insect pests, along with effective management techniques.The authors explore how today’s rapid and cutting-edge technology is used in practices and breeding methodologies that not only enhance millet production but also contribute to the overall sustainability of agricultural systems, serving as a valuable resource for those at the forefront of agricultural innovation. These include genetic solutions for disease resistance, improved yields, enhanced nutritional quality, improved stress response, etc.The volume also, importantly, takes an in-depth look at the effect of climate change on diseases and insect pests of millet crops.Millets: Exploring the Underutilized Potential for Sustainable Agriculture stands as a comprehensive guide that bridges the gap between the potential of millets and their actualization in sustainable farming practices. It is a valuable resource for researchers, farmers, policymakers, and anyone passionate about the intersection of agriculture, sustainability, and resilience. This book is not just an exploration of millets; it is a roadmap for a more sustainable and secure future for agriculture and food systems worldwide.

Climate change and population growth have led to a global need for improved crop plants that are resistant/tolerant to climate-induced stresses and provide greater yields. This book comprehensively and coherently reviews the various aspects of "omics" research methods as they apply to crop plant improvement, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epiomics, ionomics, and interomics. These multiple-omics approaches to crop science have already played an important role in the rapid creation of improved crop plants particularly in rice, wheat, maize, and millets and are set to provide greater advances in the future. The book also describes the various bioinformatics techniques that are utilized as tools for the analysis of omics data. Integrating systems biology with multi-omics datasets that can enhance our understanding of molecular regulatory networks for crop improvement is also covered. This book is essential reading for researchers and graduate students of plant breeding, crop science, molecular biology, and agricultural science.

Restructured and Revised syllabi of post-graduate programmes. The BSMA committee report submitted by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) are developed to streamline and address postgraduate and PhD programs. On the recommendations of the NCG, 19 Broad Subject Matter Area (BSMA) Committees have been constituted by the ICAR for revising the syllabus. These Committees held discussions at length in the meetings and workshops organized across the country, framed and revised the content.Core areas like understanding the policy, importance of policies for extension, ensure funding, institutional restructuring, capacity building of extension functionaries, types of policies, policy as a product and process, structured policies and institutions- how this influence defining organizational roles and performance in extension organizations, formulation of policies, role and importance of policies in up scaling knowledge, role of governments support policies in knowledge-based institutions success. policy advocacy and tools, approaches to policy advocacy, policy advocacy strategies, policy analysis, types of policy analysis, have been described with suitable illustrations in simple understandable language for the readers. methods and techniques commonly used in policy analysis, ethical policy analysis, tools for policy impact research, policy influence tools, policy development process, environmental factors, environmental factors, influencing policy change through generating evidence, engaging with policymakers, global experience with agricultural extension policies, challenges in policy implementation etc., all the above mentioned topics were well documented according to the syllabus.An attempt has been made to include newer areas and concepts according to guidelines of Broad Subject Matter Area Committees (BSMA) for the benefit of the readers. This book tried to incorporate the recent advances. We acknowledge the authors whose study has been cited and to all those who motivated us to bring out this publication. We also acknowledge sincere efforts of reviewers in compilation and publication of the book.

This edited book is collection of information on molecular interventions needed for climate-resilient forage crops. This book discusses current aspects of crucial physiological, biochemical and molecular processes in forage crops, which are essential for forage crops improvement.