Advances in Crop Environment Interaction

Dr. Santanu Kumar Bal is a Principal Scientist at the ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), Hyderabad. He obtained his M.Sc. & Ph.D. degrees in Agrometeorology from Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana. He has published 55 research articles, 110 other publications and received advanced training on database management in meteorology and hydrology in Israel. His current research interests include development of dynamic crop weather calendars & improvement in prediction of crop phenology.Dr. Joydeep Mukherjee is a Principal Scientist at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Physics from ICAR-IARI. He has published 73 research articles, 32 other publications and received advanced training on the application of GIS in agriculture at OSU, USA. His current research interests include micrometeorology using Las and eddy covariance tower and soil moisture estimation using microwave remote sensing. Dr. Burhan Uddin Choudhury is a Principal Scientist at the ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Meghalaya. He obtained his M.Sc. from PAU & Ph.D. in Agricultural Physics from ICAR-IARI. He has published 62 research articles, 55 other publications and he received the Rothamsted International Fellow 2016, prestigious IARI merit model and ICAR-biennial Team Research Award. His current research interests are NRM using hyperspectral remote sensing (RS), UAV and multispectral RS, crop & soil erosion studies in the fragile hilly ecosystems of NE India.Dr. Ashok Kumar Dhawan is former Additional Director & Head of the Department of Entomology, PAU Ludhiana.  He is the President of the Indian Ecological Society and the Society for Sustainable Cotton Production. He has 71 recommendations, 16 books and 430 research articles to his credit. He is fellow of 7 professional societies and at present is involved in organizing conferences to developawareness among policy planner and public/private sectors on issues related to ecology & environment by organizing conferences.

• Part-I: Understanding the process of interaction.- Chapter 1. Carbon dynamics in soil-plant-atmospheric continuum.- Chapter 2. Monitoring Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agro-Ecosystems.- Chapter 3. Methane emission from wetland rice agriculture-Biogeochemistry and environmental controls in the projected changing environment.- Chapter 4. Response of soil properties and soil microbial communities to  the projected Climate Change Scenarios.- Chapter 5. Altitude regulates soil organic carbon accumulation: few case studies from hilly ecosystem of North-eastern Region of India.- Part-II: Making interaction favourable through management interventions.- Chapter 6. Exploitation of Photo-thermal environment concept in improving crop productivity.- Chapter 7. Heat stress in field crops: impact and  management approaches.- Chapter 8. Identifying suitable soil health indicators under variable climate scenarios: A ready reckoner for soil management.- Chapter 9. Organic agriculture: Potentialsin managing abiotic stresses in crop production.- Chapter 10. Plant associated microbial interactions in the soil environment: role of endophytes in imparting abiotic stress tolerance  to agricultural/& horticultural crops.- Part-III: Scientific approaches for assessing stress impacts on crops.- Chapter 11. Application of crop simulation models in managing irrigation water in agricultural field crops.- Chapter 12. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing: A tool to detect abiotic stresses in agriculture.- Chapter 13. Understanding the crop-climate interaction using process based simulation models.- Chapter 14. Canopy temperature based indices for water stress detection.- Part-IV: Stress impacts on agricultural commodities: few case studies.- Chapter 15. Shift in the manifestations of insect pests under predicted climatic change scenarios: Key challenges and adaptation strategies.- Chapter 16. Food chains and webs: Interaction with ecosystem.- Chapter 17. Performance of rice crop under enriched CO2 environment.