Long description:

Rice Cultivation under Abiotic Stresses: Challenges and Opportunities provides a unique look at three key factors in optimized rice yield - cultivation practices, understanding abiotic stress response, and mitigation strategies - enabling the reader to better understand the cause, effect, and means of protecting rice crop yield. It is a uniquely comprehensive resource for advancing the sustainable and optimal production of rice that will be a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in Agriculture, Agronomy, Botany, Plant Physiology, and Environmental Science.

Rice is the primary source of energy for over half of the world’s people. It can play a vital role against mal and under nutrition, but as climate and other abiotic challenges continue to impact yield, steps need to be taken to ensure production.

• Presents technical advances, including the use of artificial intelligence and the status of C4 rice
• Explores cultural practices in rice cultivation, including submergent tolerant rice and heavy metals stress tolerant mechanisms for translational insights
• Targeted specifically for issues related to the environment

Table of Contents:

Section A: Rice: An introduction to the crop and cultivation methods
1. Rice production at global level: Current status, challenges and future scenarios
2. Rice crop: A treasure of genetic resource
3. Rice crop production from nursery to post-harvesting treatment
4. Rainfed and irrigation based rice cultivation: the importance of water
5. Fertilization methods for rice cropping from inorganic to integrated approach

Section B: Rice cultivation faced with several environmental stresses
6. Salt stress responses and its management in rice
7. Rice drought stress tolerance and its management
8. Submergence and waterlogging tolerance in rice
9. Rice cultivation in the wake of global warming and heat
10. Cold stress tolerance mechanisms in rice
11. Microplastics in rice
12. Rice cultivation under nutrient limitation
13. Organic pollutants fate in paddy fields and rice grains
14. Arsenic in rice: A serious worldwide problem
15. The prevalence of acid soils and their effect on rice crop cultivation
16. Worsening air quality with pollutants: The effects on rice crop
17. Ozone in the air and its impact on rice crop quality and production

Section C: Methods to mitigate the stress and enhance rice production
18. Fertilizer amendments to tackle toxic metal accumulation and nutrient limitation in rice
19. Water management for managing arsenic accumulation in rice
20. Chemical and hormonal amendments to improve stress tolerance of rice
21. Microbial interventions to manage abiotic stresses in rice
22. Climate resilient rice
23. Current updates on improving CO2 diffusion inside the rice leaves for resource use efficiency
24. Genome editing for rice stress tolerance
25. Role of artificial intelligence in precision rice cultivation for environmental stress tolerance
26. GIS and remote sensing applications in rice cultivation
27. Modern tools in rice crop production: Machine based phenotyping and drones
28. The role of traditional breeding in tackling abiotic stress in rice crops
29. Speed breeding: A novel method to fasten rice breeding for abiotic stress tolerance