Climate-Resilient Crops by Azhar, Muhammad Tehseen; Ali, Zulfiqar; Khan, Muhammad Azam;

Short description:

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. 

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

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