Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes: Volume 2

Chapter 1
Brassicas: Responses and Tolerance To Heavy Metal Stress
Shaista Qadir, Asiya Hameed, Nahida Tun Nisa, MM Azooz, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mirza Hasannuzaman, Alvina Gul Kazi and Parvaiz Ahmad
Chapter 2
Recent Advances in Rapid and Sensitive Screening For Abiotic Stress Tolerance
Nitin Mantri, Vikas Patade and Edwin Pang
Chapter 3
Transcriptomics of Heat Stress in Plants
B. Sailaja, Satendra K. Mangrauthia, N. Sarla and S. R. Voleti
Chapter 4
Biotic Stress and Crop Improvement
Irada Huseynova, Nargiz Sultanova, Alamdar Mammadov, Saftar Suleymanov and Jalal Aliyev
Chapter 5
Salt Stress and Sugar Beet Improvement: Challenges and Opportunities
Abazar Rajabi, Samar Khayamim, Zahra Abbasi, and Eric Ober
Chapter 6
Genotypic Variation for Drought Tolerance in Wheat Plants
Jalal A. Aliyev and Irada M. Huseynova
Chapter 7
Soil Contaminants: Sources, Effects and Approaches for Remediation
Ghulam Murtaza, Behzad Murtaza, Nabeel Khan Niazi, and Muhammad Sabir
Chapter 8
Role of Macronutrients in Plant Growth and Acclimation: Recent Advances and Future Prospective
Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Vijay Pratap Singh, Devendra Kumar Chauhan, Sheo Mohan Prasad, and Nawal Kishor Dubey
Chapter 9
Mutation Breeding: A Novel Technique for Genetic Improvement of Pulse Crops Particularly Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)
Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohd Imran Kozgar, Nasya Tomlekova, Samiullah Khan, Alvina Gul Kazi, Subzar Ahmad Sheikh, and Parvaiz Ahmad
Chapter 10
Organic Farming: The Return To Nature
Saima Siddique, Madeeha Hamid, Ameema Tariq, Muhammad Ashraf, and Alvina Gul Kazi
Chapter 11
The Role of Cytological Aberrations in Crop Improvement Through Induced Mutagenesis
Mohammad Imran Kozgar, Shaheen Hussain, Mohd Rafiq Wani and Samiullah Khan
Chapter 12
Wheat Improvement: Historical Perspective and Mutational Approach-A Review
Subzar Ahmad Sheikh, Mohd Rafiq Wani, Mohd Imran Kozgar and Parvaiz Ahmad
Chapter 13
Cotton Leaf Curl Virus Disease Predictive Model Based on Environmental Variables
Safdar Ali, M. Aslam Khan, Shahbaz Talib Sahi, M. Atiq, and A. Hannan
Chapter 14
Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Responses -Their Potentials in Crop Improvement
Xuan Lan Thi Hoang, Nguyen Binh Anh Thu, Nguyen Phuong Thao, and Lam-Son Phan Tran