دانلود کتاب تغییرات آب و هوایی جهانی و مدیریت تنش گیاهی

The existence of living organisms depends on the food synthesized by mainly green plants by capturing energy from sunlight through the process of photosynthesis. At present, a global challenge is to sustain crop productivity in a changing environment to meet the demand of increasing population. However, the current reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have made clear that the urgency to take action on global climate change and agrifood production is not well understood so far. There is an urgent need for agrifood systems to be more versatile to the existing and upcoming impacts of global climate change, which could be achieved through learning from superior practices, encouraging transformative adjustment strategies, plans, and its subsequent actions. A growing tendency toward climate change for the past few decades has badly hit global crop production on the large scale. It imposes environmental variations that include high salinity, very high and low temperatures, draughts, heavy metal toxicity and nutrient loss, the growth of bacteria, viruses, fungi, different pests, and parasites, harmful insect invasions, and increased CO2 and ocean acidification. This will have a considerably harmful impact on beneficial microbes, plant productivity, restoration efforts, and ecosystem health. Global warming is expected to elicit harsh weather trends, long-lasting droughts, floods and waterlogging, storms, and increased disease incidence, which cause altered growth, impaired photosynthesis, and reduced physiological responses in plants that limit agrifood production. Global sustainable farming systems are at risk owing to rising and co-occurring temperatures, droughts, and salinity stresses. According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the impact of water stress and drought hazards, including withering droughts and overwhelming floods, is thrashing African communities and ecosystems. The strategies to deal with increased CO2 concentrations and global warming and enhance plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses are important targets for sustainable agricultural production. Recent advances in science, such as CRISPR-associated (Cas) protein-based genome editing (CRISPR-Cas) and “Omics” tools such as genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics, have enhanced precision and rapidity in the progress of plant molecular breeding programs to develop nutrient-enriched and stress-tolerant plant variety, which might be the key players in ensuring food security. Additionally, it will contribute a significant amount of potential for developing more resilient and climate-smart crops to respond to the rising threat of climate change and its undesirable effects on agrifood. In the present book, Global Climate Change and Plant Stress Management, we present a collection of 27 chapters by 80 experts from 12 different countries – Australia, England, Fiji Island, Italy, India, Iran, Japan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Nepal, South America, and the United Kingdom. This book offers a current overview of recent developments in sustainable agriculture production in a changing environment. This book aims to accentuate issues of global climate change and food insecurity for billions of people, assuming they will face drastic hunger in the upcoming period. It emphasizes all concerns about carbon and nutrient cycles, global warming, and environmental stresses originating under a scenario of global climate change and thereby badly affecting basic agriculture production, on which the common world’s poor depend. This book also presents the potential ways of exploring, investigating, and adopting novel techniques and tools, methodologies, and scientific inventions to realize climate’s outcomes on food security. The knowledge convened herein might be inspiring to farmers who may respond to beneficial crops as per the foretold climate. This perceptive will result in good dealings for both scientists indicted for predicting global climate threats and policymakers responsible for influential decisions in the field. The present book is specifically appropriate for environmental and biological science students engaged in interdisciplinary research, research scholars, young scientists, and faculty members. We thank the late Prof. R.C. Pant and Dr. Alok Shukla who helped us during the initial phase of this work.