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Changing Environment and Crop Plant Breeding

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Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment

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Any crop exposed to stress environment is influenced by the weather aberrations. These aberrations generate abiotic stress conditions contributing to 60 to 80% changes in crop production and productivity. The problem of climate change is further augmenting these stresses causing much more reduction in crop yield. Variable and complex responses by the plant are generally seen under such conditions resulting in changes at physiological, biochemical, morphological, and molecular levels. The extent and impact of crop response under abiotic stress conditions are dependent on several factors. In general, avoidance, escape, and susceptibility are the three ways which crop under stress conditions adopts. These response mechanisms vary from plant to plant and genotype to genotype. Developing tolerant crop varieties having high productivity for stress conditions is the need of the prevailing climate-changing condition. The current breeding approaches are focusing on such physiological traits which impart tolerance to the plant. The recent advances in biotechnology have also advanced the breeder hand in developing tolerant varieties with a specific target trait for stress conditions which otherwise through conventional breeding efforts are more time taken. Crop response under stress environment and breeding approaches for enhancing crop productivity under abiotic conditions is briefly described in this chapter.

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    Ashutosh Kumar Mall, Varucha Misra & A. D. Pathak

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  1. Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Shamim Akhtar Ansari

  2. Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Mohammad Israil Ansari

  3. Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia

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Mall, A.K., Misra, V., Pathak, A.D. (2022). Changing Environment and Crop Plant Breeding. In: Ansari, S.A., Ansari, M.I., Husen, A. (eds) Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6361-1_6

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