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Abiotic Stress in Underground Vegetables

Response and Mitigation

  • 1st Edition - March 20, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Milan Kumar Lal, Rahul Kumar Tiwari, Awadhesh Kumar, Ravinder Kumar, Brajesh Singh
  • Language: English

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Description

Abiotic Stress in Underground Vegetables provides comprehensive information on the morphological, physiological, and biochemical responses of various underground vegetable crops to abiotic stress and the strategies for managing these crops under these conditions.

Climate changes pose major challenges to the productivity and yield of crops, particularly horticultural crops that bear their edible parts underground. Underground vegetable crops are highly nutritious, non-cereal plant species grown in various agro-ecological zones and play a significant role in feeding both people and animals around the world as well a providing industrial products. To address the range of challenges created by climate changes, it is crucial to understand the physiological, biochemical, and molecular responses of crops to abiotic stress and the potential mechanisms of resistance and mitigation.

Presented in two parts, 'Stress Responses' and 'Stress Mitigation', Abiotic Stress in Underground Vegetables offers a detailed exploration of reactions of different underground vegetable crops to abiotic stress, along with effective management strategies for cultivating these crops. This book is an essential resource for researchers, students, crop growers, and all stakeholders in the field of crop sciences who are interested in improving the yield and productivity of these vital crops.

Key features

  • Provides complete information on functional plant physiology and the molecular aspects of underground vegetable crops
  • Presents comprehensive information and potential application strategies of Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria in the horticultural crop production system
  • Includes synthesis and assimilation of the potential use of novel phytohormone-diverse plant growth stages

Readership

Researchers and Advanced students in crop science and agriculture

Table of contents

Part 1: Stress Responses

1. Overview of underground vegetable crops

2. Climate change and abiotic stress: A perspective from underground vegetable crop

3. Physiological and biochemical mechanisms in underground vegetable crops for growth and development

4. Phenotyping root and tuber crops under abiotic stress

5. Navigating Salinity Challenges: Enhancing Resilience in Underground Vegetable Crops

6. Drought stress as a main culprit in growth and development of root and tuber crops

7. High-temperature stress: A major hurdle in the root and tuber crops production system

8. Effect of heavy metal on production and productivity of underground vegetable crops

9. High light intensity in root and tuber crops

10. Cold/frost stress response of underground vegetable crops

Part 2: Stress mitigation

11. Phytohormone as a saviour in abiotic stress tolerance in underground vegetable crops

12. Interaction of phytohormone and reactive oxygen species in root and tuber crops

13. Multi-omics approach to address alleviation of abiotic stress in root and tuber crops

14. Role of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in underground vegetable crops for mitigation of abiotic stress

15. Agronomic approach to deal with the abiotic stress tolerance in root and tuber crops

16. Genetics and breeding approach of mitigation of abiotic stress in underground vegetable crops

17. Genome editing and molecular approaches in underground crops for abiotic stress

18. Heavy metal accumulation in vegetable crops: A threat to sustainable agro-ecosystem

19. Elevated CO2 and underground vegetable crop

20. Production, trade, and future prospects of Indian vegetables: Current scenario and way forward

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 20, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Milan Kumar Lal

Dr. Milan Kumar Lal, Doctor in Plant Physiology, working in the area of abiotic, abiotic stress and nutritional aspect of potato and other starchy crops at ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India. He is an expert worker in the area of abiotic stress such as heat, drought salinity and heavy metal. Moreover, he is also working on the aspect of the effect of biotic stress such as fungus, virus and bacteria on plant physiological, biochemical and molecular responses. Apart from this, he also has expertise in the nutritional and quality aspects of starchy crops, including resistant starch, glycemic index, phytonutrients, functional fermented foods and beverages, bioactive compounds, and various processing techniques to enhance these components in food products of starchy crops. His findings have generated more than 90 publications in the international peer-reviewed journal.
Affiliations and expertise
ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India

RK

Rahul Kumar Tiwari

Dr Rahul Kumar Tiwari, a doctor in Plant Pathology, works as a scientist at Central Potato Research Institute Shimla, India. He is currently working on melatonin-mediated mitigation of soil and tuber-borne diseases and physiological disorders in crop plants. He has also worked on signalling mechanism of pathogens, pathogenomics and management of hemibiotrophic fungi. He has explored the genetic diversity of pathogenic microbes in field and horticultural crops. Additionally, his area of interest is on multiple aspects of pathophysiological alterations in food crops under the influence of diverse biotic and abiotic stresses. He has published more than 40 publications in national and internationally reputed journal.
Affiliations and expertise
ICAR-Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

AK

Awadhesh Kumar

Dr. Awadhesh Kumar, Ph.D., Scientist (Plant Biochemistry), ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India has over 17 years research experience on nutritional and molecular biochemistry. Presently, he is working on starch digestibility parameters (Glycemic index, amylose, resistant starch) and role of antinutritional factor (phytic acid) on minerals bioavailability in rice grain. He is also working on the improvement of photosynthetic efficiency in rice. In addition to above research areas, he is also involved in exploring the role of abiotic stresses (drought, heat and low light) on biochemical and nutritional parameters in rice. He has published more than 100 research/review/other articles in various national and international journals. In his credit, 3 patents are granted in the year between 2020-2022.
Affiliations and expertise
ICAR-National Rice Research Institute, Cuttack, Odisha, India

RK

Ravinder Kumar

Dr. Ravinder Kumar, Ph.D., Senior Scientist (Plant Pathology), ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India has over 15 years of research experience on biotic and abiotic stresses management in plant, potato biotechnology, particularly formulation of dsRNA for late blight, development of transgenic lines with ToLCNDV resistance, potato genetic resource management, developed several diagnostic tools like uniplex/multiplex RT-PCR, real-time RT-PCR, LAMP, and RT-RPA protocols for the detection of potato pathogens, molecular characterization and genome sequencing of plant pathogens. He has published over 120 research papers/reviews articles in national/international peer-reviewed journals, training manuals and book chapters, edited Institute publications like newsletters and annual reports. He is the recipient of Awards like IPA-Kaushalya Sikka Memorial Award, Chandra Prabha Singh Young Scientist Award, Young Scientist Associate award, best oral/poster awards of different scientific professional societies.
Affiliations and expertise
ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

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Brajesh Singh

Dr. Brajesh Singh Doctor in Botany, Principal Scientist at ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute Shimla and Head of Crop Physiology, Biochemistry and Post-Harvest Technology Division. His interest had been on potato storage technologies and processing and nutritional quality assessments. He is currently coordinating the programme on Post harvest management and nutritional enhancement of potatoes. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and is author of four patents.
Affiliations and expertise
ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India

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