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The twentieth century has seen tremendous progress toward increased food production to feed the world’s current population of 7.3 billion. However, natural climatic changes leading to extreme weather patterns and human-influenced changes, which include the growing population, are blamed for adversely affecting the environment and are putting enormous strain on food productions. In particular, the crop plants that feed the world and sustain human health are being exposed to diverse environmental stresses, resulting in reduced farm yields. The rising threat of low food security demands urgent action from the scientific community to counteract the abiotic and biotic stresses encountered by crop plants. In this chapter, we focus our attention on examining the approaches, especially the genetic/genomic methods, which are being utilized by the researchers to improve the crop standing in the field under abiotic stresses.
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DWK and JSR appreciate the financial support of Rural Development Administration (RDA), Republic of Korea. JSR acknowledges the support of Agriculture Experiment Station-South Dakota State University. RR acknowledges the great support of Professors Koji Nomura (Organization for Educational Initiatives, University of Tsukuba) and Yoshihiro Shiraiwa (Provost of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba), and Professor Seiji Shioda (Department of Anatomy I, Showa University School of Medicine) in promoting interdisciplinary research and unselfish encouragements. SA acknowledges financial help from Indian Council of Agricultural Research. Benjamin Benson was extremely helpful in reading this manuscript critically. Authors acknowledge the INPPO (www.inppo.com) platform in bringing together scientists across the countries in constructing this chapter.
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Kim, DW., Agrawal, G.K., Rakwal, R., Ahmed, S., Rohila, J.S. (2014). Genomic Methods for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops. In: Ricroch, A., Chopra, S., Fleischer, S. (eds) Plant Biotechnology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06892-3_4
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