Advances in Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance provides an important guide to recognizing, assessing and addressing the broad range of environmental factors that can inhibit rice yield. As a staple food for nearly half of the worlds population, and in light of projected population growth, improving and increasing rice yield is imperative. This book presents current research on abiotic stresses including extreme temperature variance, drought, hypoxia, salinity, heavy metal, nutrient deficiency and toxicity stresses. Going further, it identifies a variety of approaches to alleviate the damaging effects and improving the stress tolerance of rice. Advances in Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance provides an important reference for those ensuring optimal yields from this globally important food crop.Covers aspects of abiotic stress, from research, history, practical field problems faced by rice, and the possible remedies to the adverse effects of abiotic stressesProvides practical insights into a wide range of management and crop improvement practicesPresents a valuable, single-volume sourcebook for rice scientists dealing with agronomy, physiology, molecular biology and biotechnology
1. Major Constraints for Global Rice Production
2. Managing Abiotic Stresses With Rice Agriculture to Achieve Sustainable
Food Security: Bangladesh Perspective
3. Recent Progress in Rice Varietal Development for Abiotic Stress Tolerance
4. Plant Growth and Morphological Changes in Rice Under Abiotic Stress
5. Recent Advancements in Developing Salinity Tolerant Rice
6. Deciphering Strategies for Salt Stress Tolerance in Rice in the Context of
Climate Change
7. A Comprehensive Review on Rice Responses and Tolerance to Salt Stress
8. Effects of Salinity on Rice and Rice Weeds: Shortand Long-Term Adaptation
Strategies and Weed Management
9. Drought Stress Responses and its Management in Rice
10. Rice Responses and Tolerance to High Temperature
11. Scope and Progress of Rice Research Harnessing Cold Tolerance
12. Current Scenarios, Progress and Prospects of Developing Technologies for
Flood-Tolerant Rice in Bangladesh
13. Responses of Rice to Individual and Combined Stresses of Flooding and
Salinity
14. Rice Responses and Tolerance to Metal/Metalloid Toxicity
15. Metal Toxicity in Rice and Strategies for Improving Stress Tolerance
16. Physiological and Molecular Responses for Metalloid Stress in RiceA
Comprehensive Overview
17. Plausible Strategies to Reduce Arsenic Accumulation in Rice
18. Recent Advances in Arsenic Accumulation in Rice
19. Rice Responses and Tolerance to Elevated Ozone
20. Tools and Techniques in the Assessment of Plant Tolerance to High
Irradiance Stress With Illustration of Cereal Crops Like Rice
21. Soil Nutrient Stress and Rice Production in Bangladesh
22. Organic Carbon Sources and Nitrogen Management Improve Biomass of Hybrid
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Under Nitrogen Deficient Condition
23. A Review on the Protocols and Comparative Studies of Oxidative Stress
Tolerance in Rice
24. Abiotic Stress-Induced Oxidative Stress in Rice
25. Climate Change and Abiotic Stress-Induced Oxidative Burst in Rice
26. Comparative Metabolomics Approach Towards Understanding Chemical
Variation in Rice Under Abiotic Stress
27. Abiotic Stress Signaling in Rice Crop
28. Abiotic Stress and Rice Grain Quality
29. Advances in Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance: Agronomic
Approaches to Improve Rice Production Under Abiotic Stress
30. Advances in Biotechnological Tools: Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in
Rice
31. Use of Phytohormones in Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance to Rice
32. Use of Phytohormones in Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
33. Emerging Role of Osmolytes in Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
34. Rice Responses and Tolerance to Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) Radiation: Plant
Growth Regulators Provide a Management Option
35. Ameliorative Mechanisms of Polyamines Against Abiotic Stress in the Rice
Plants
36. Genomic Footprints Uncovering Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
37. Engineering of Abiotic Stress Tolerance by Modulating Antioxidant Defense
Systems
38. Omics Approaches in Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice (Oryza
sativa L.)
39. Proteomics Study in Rice Responses and Tolerance to Salt Stress
40. Rice Responses and Tolerance to Salt Stress: Deciphering the
Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Salinity Adaptation
41. Progress and Challenges of Detecting Biomarkers for the Development of
Pesticide Biosensor in Rice Plants
42. Molecular Approaches for Dissecting and Improving Drought and Heat
Tolerance in Rice
43. Use of QTLs in Developing Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice
44. Policy Directions Toward Increasing Rice ProductivityLessons from
Bangladesh
Dr. Mirza Hasanuzzaman is Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka. He is a specialist in agronomy, plant stress responses, and crop physiology. His current work is focused on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of environmental stress tolerance (salinity, drought, flood, and heavy metals/metalloids). Dr. Hasanuzzaman has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has edited six books and written 30 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress tolerance, and crop production. Dr. Masayuki Fujita is a Professor in the Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and his M.Agr. and Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research interests include physiological, biochemical and molecular biological responses based on secondary metabolism in plants under biotic (pathogenic fungal infection) and abiotic (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures and heavy metals) stresses; phytoalexin, cytochrome P-450, glutathione S-transferase, phytochelatin and redox reaction and antioxidants. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has multiple books. Dr. Kamrun Nahar, Department of Agricultural Botany, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh She is well expert in the field of Plant Physiology, Ecology, Molecular Biology and Abiotic Stress Tolerance. Published 1o book chapters and more than 30 research articles. Dr. Jiban Krishna Biswas, National Consultant (Healthier Rice Project), IRRI-Bangladesh and former Director General of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Gazipur, Bangladesh Renowned rice scientists and expert in Rice Biology, Physiology and Agronomy. Published more than 20 monographs, 50 research articles and hundreds of popular articles.
