Plant Functional Traits for Improving Productivity / edited by Narendra Kumar, Hukum Singh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumar, Narendra, author.

Singh, Hukum, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agricultural genome mapping.

Plant genetics.

Stress (Physiology).

Plants.

Agricultural Genetics.

Plant Genetics.

Plant Stress Responses.

Local Subjects:

Agricultural Genetics.

Plant Genetics.

Plant Stress Responses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 353 p. 31 illus., 29 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

This book discusses how plant functional trait selection can help researchers to understand the plant-environment relationship, identify desirable traits, modulate plant resilience according to the changing climate, optimize resource use efficiency, and enhance genetic improvement. The plant functional traits-based approach provides a framework for improving crop productivity in agricultural systems with high precision. It enables researchers to develop crop varieties with desirable traits by focusing on the fundamental characteristics influencing growth, development, and response. Climate change and environmental variability pose significant agricultural challenges. The plant functional traits-based approach can help address these challenges by selecting and breeding traits that enhance resilience and adaptability capacity of the plant. This approach also contributes to sustainable agriculture, by focusing on increased food production, and resilience in extreme environmental conditions. This book provides guidance to the researchers and breeders to develop crop varieties with desirable traits. It is also a reference book for graduate and postgraduate students studying botany and agriculture.

Contents:

1- Plant functional traits: concepts and significance

2- Implication of plant functional traits in crop improvement: challenges and opportunities

3- The interplay between plant functional traits and climate change

4- Scientific advancement in trait measurement and quantification

5- Application of functional traits in modelling productivity and resilience under climate change

6- Role of plant functional traits in improving resource use efficiency

7- Traits influencing light capture and photosynthetic efficiency

8- Enhancing water use efficiency through trait-based approaches

9- Trait-based approaches to improve nutrient uptake efficiency in crops

10- Plant functional traits in crop breeding: advancement and challenges

11- Integrating marker-assisted and genomic selection for trait improvement

12- Genetic engineering and gene editing for targeted trait modifications

13- Plant functional traits assisted crop adaptation under abiotic and biotic stress

14- Managing crop adaptation to changing environmental conditions

15- Field application and validation of plant functional traits

16- Challenges and opportunities in scaling up plant functional traits-based approaches

17- Integration of plant functional traits in sustainable agriculture

18- Future challenges and opportunities.

ISBN:

981-9715-10-5