Climate-Resilient Horticulture: Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate-Resilient Horticulture

   • Harish Chandra Prasad Singh

   Pages 1-12

3. Impacts of Climate Change on Horticulture Across India

   • S. L. H. V. Prasada Rao, C. S. Gopakumar, K. N. Krishnakumar

   Pages 13-20

4. Modelling Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation Strategies and Mitigation Potential in Horticultural Crops

   • Soora Naresh Kumar

   Pages 21-33

5. Impact of Abiotic Stresses on Horticulture and Strategies for Mitigation in Northeastern India

   • Veerendra Kumar Verma, Amit Nath, Anjani Kumar Jha, Nishant Anandrao Deshmukh, Ram Kishor Patel

   Pages 35-43

6. Impact, Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Resilient Banana Production

   • Iyyakutty Ravi, Mohamed Mohamed Mustaffa

   Pages 45-52

7. Harmonious Phenological Data: A Basic Need for Understanding the Impact of Climate Change on Mango

   • Shailendra Rajan, H. Ravishankar, Divya Tiwari, V. K. Singh, Pooja Saxena, Shilpi Singh et al.

   Pages 53-65

8. Effect of Climate Change on Grape and Its Value-Added Products

   • Jagdev Sharma, Ajay Kumar Upadhyay, Pandurang Gundappa Adsule, Sanjay Dinanath Sawant, Ajay Kumar Sharma, Jogaiah Satisha et al.

   Pages 67-80

9. Climate Resilient Adaptation Strategies for Litchi Production

   • Rajesh Kumar, Vishal Nath

   Pages 81-88

10. Impact of Climate Change on Mountain Horticulture

    • Kartar Singh Verma, Mahadev Singh Mankotia, Sudhir Verma, Vikas Kumar Sharma

    Pages 89-102

11. Development of Vegetable Hybrids for Climate Change Scenarios

    • Arvind Kapur

    Pages 103-111

12. Genetic Enhancement of Tomato Crop for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

    • Avverahally Thamanna Sadashiva, Manohar George Christopher, Thilakadavu Krishnamurthy Krithika

    Pages 113-124

13. Impact of Climate Change on Potato

    • Bir Pal Singh, Vijay Kumar Dua, Panamanna Mahadevan Govindakrishnan, Sanjeev Sharma

    Pages 125-135

14. Adaptation Options for Sustainable Production of Cucurbitaceous Vegetable Under Climate Change Situation

    • Prakash Shamrao Naik, Major Singh, Pradip Karmakar

    Pages 137-146

15. Phenotyping Horticultural Crops for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

    • Nadipynayakanahally Krishnamurthy Srinivasa Rao, Ramanna Hunashikatti Laxman

    Pages 147-157

16. Significance of Grafting in Improving Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Vegetable Crops Under Climate Change Scenario

    • Ravindra Mohan Bhatt, Nadipynayakanahally Krishnamurthy Srinivasa Rao, Divya Makkimane Harish, Srilakshmi

    Pages 159-175

17. Plantation Crops Response to Climate Change: Coconut Perspective

    • Kukkehalli Balachandra Hebbar, Doddaballapura Balasimha, George Vettimoottil Thomas

    Pages 177-187

18. Impact of Climate Change on Cashew and Adaptation Strategies

    • Thimmasamudram Raghavareddy Rupa, Raghavan Rejani, Moodakare Gopalakrishna Bhat

    Pages 189-198

19. Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate-Resilient Oil Palm

    • Kancherla Suresh

    Pages 199-211

20. Floriculture, a Viable Option of Diversification in the Light of Climate Change

    • Prathapani Naveen Kumar, Ganesh Balkrushna Kadam, Ramesh Kumar

    Pages 213-220

Climate change, a global phenomenon, has attracted scientists to contribute in anticipatory research to mitigate adverse impacts, which are more important for horticulture, considering that the scenario is in the midst of revolution, reaching the production level of 250 million tonnes in India. Impacts of climate variability have, invariably, profound influence on production and quality. An understanding of the impacts and relevant adaptation strategies are of foremost importance to sustain the productivity and profitability of horticulture crops in the climate change scenario, which necessitates synthesis of current knowledge to develop strategies for adaptation and mitigation to achieve climate-resilient horticulture. The book Climate-resilient horticulture: adaptation and mitigation strategies addresses the effects of climate change on different horticultural crops and focuses on the adaptation strategies based on the scientific knowledge generated by the experts in different agro-climatic regions in India. Issues have been covered in various chapters to make this book a treasure of knowledge in horticulture vis-a-vis climate change. Some of the crops included in the book are apple, grapes, cashew, banana, litchi, mango, coconut, oil palm, potato, tomato, cucurbits and flowers. In addition to strategies to be adapted in these crops, various other important aspects like carbon sequestration, pests and diseases, and urban landscaping are also covered in the book. Information on climatic risks and adaptation options for resilience in horticultural crops and future strategies and information on pest and disease dynamics on horticultural crops in relation to climate change and available mitigation strategies have also been documented. The book is edited by Dr H P Singh, a visionary leader, and his colleagues, which will be highly valuable to research workers, students, policy planners and farmers to understand and checkmate the adverse effect of climate change, so asto convert weakness into opportunity.

• Abiotic stress
• Carbon sequestration
• Pest dynamics
• Phenotyping
• Stress tolerance
• Climate change management

• , Department of Horticulture, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi, India

  Harish Chandra Prasad Singh

• , Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Indian Institute of HorticulturalResearh, Bangalore, India

  Nadipynayakanahally Krishnamurthy Sriniv Rao

• , Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Horticultural Resear, Bangalore, India

  Kodthalu Seetharamaiah Shivashankar

Dr. Harish Chandra Prasad Singh, with his career spanning 41 years, has outstandingly contributed to research, development and academics. Dynamic leadership of Dr Singh has earned him national and international recognitions. He is the recipient of three international and 35 national awards and nine fellowships, including the fellowship of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Dr Singh is affiliated with many professional associations/societies as chairman, president, vice-president and general secretary. He has authored and edited 57 books, 30 bulletins, 50 reports and more than 300 scientific papers. He is the editor-in-chief of International Journal of Innovative Horticulture, published by CHAI. .Currently, he is the Founder and Chairman, Confederation of Horticulture Associations of India (CHAI).

Dr. Nadipynayakanahally Krishnamurthy Srinivasa Rao, Ex Principal Scientist (Plant Physiology.) and Emeritus Scientist at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore, has contributed significantly to the understanding of the mechanism of abiotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops. He has significantly contributed in identifying genotypes tolerant to abiotic stresses. Dr. Rao has developed a good laboratory for climate change research at IIHR, Bangalore. He devotes his full time in planning and developing various state-of-the-art facilities. He has published more than 60 scientific papers in national and international journals and he has 7 book chapters to his credit.

Dr. Kodthalu Seetharamaiah Shivashankara is a Principal Scientist in the Division of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research, Bangalore. He has got more than 20 years of research experience in various horticulture-related fields. Dr. Shivashankara has more than 30 research articles in various peer reviewed national and international journals. He has the experience of working in international laboratories like Food engineering lab ofNFRI, Tsukuba, Japan and at Lethbridge Research centre of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada at Lethbridge, Canada in the area of antioxidant phytonutrients and fruit volatile flavours. He has been awarded the Fellow of International College of Nutrition, by the International College of Nutrition, Alberta, Canada.

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