Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment

Dr. Shamim Akhtar Ansari, Scientist G & Ex-Director, Institute of Forest Productivity, Ranchi, India is an erudite academician and researcher. With an experience of > 38 years, Dr. Ansari possesses expertise in Crop/ Tree Physiology, Biotechnology and Forest Population Genetics. He served as Assistant Editor of "TFRI Newsletter" (1997-2002) and Editor "Indian Journal of Tropical Biodiversity" (2002-2012). To his credit are >100 research publications and eleven students for doctorate program. Dr. Ansari’s notable achievements include University Gold Medal (Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh) and R.D. Asana Gold Medal. He is also IBS/ISPP fellow and FLS (London).Dr. Mohammad Israil Ansari, Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, India, specializes in Plant Stress Physiology, Molecular Biology, Nanotechnology, Post-harvest and Agricultural Biotechnology and has worked as Professor of Biotechnology at Amity University, Lucknow, India. Dr. Ansari is a Fellow ofAcademia Sinica with post-doctoral work from Institute of Botany, Graduate Institute of Plant Biology, National Taiwan University and Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Taiwan. The academic experience of 29 years has enriched him with 109 research publications, Post-doctoral, Ph.D., post-graduate summer projects and editorial board membership, international reviewer-ship and membership to several Academic /Research and Development bodies.Dr. Azamal Husen served as Professor & Head, Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. Dr Husen’s research and teaching experience of 20 years includes nanomaterial synthesis and their various application, crop/tree physiology, herbal medicine, clonal propagation and improvement of tree species. Dr. Husen contributed to R&D projects of World Bank, ICAR, ICFRE, JBIC etc. To his credit are >150 publications; and he is Editor-in-Chief of the ‘American Journal of Plant Physiology’; and a Series Editor of ‘Exploring Medicinal Plants’, published by Taylor & Francis Group, USA.

• Chapter 1. Role of Nanosensors and Bionanosesors in Crop Abiotic Stress.- Chapter 2.  Role of Environment Stress Leaf Senescence and Crop productivity.- Chapter 3. Genomics in Enhancing Crop Productivity against Stresses.- Chapter 4. Transgenic plants: A Tool to Increase Crop Productivity Under Stress Environment.- Chapter 5. Breeding efforts for crop productivity in abiotic stress environment.- Chapter 6. Changing Environment and Crop Plant Breeding.- Chapter 7. Crop plants, abiotic stress, reactive oxygen species production, signaling and their consequences.- Chapter 8. Environment Stress Tolerance in Plants -Physiological Aspects.- Chapter 9. Role of hormones in crop plants root system architecture under changing environmental conditions.- Chapter 10. Water Logging Tolerance and Crop Productivity.- Chapter 11. Crop Adaptability to Excess Salts.- Chapter 12. Crop Scavenging Potential to Heavy Metals.- Chapter 13. Role of plant microbiome under stress environment to enhancecrop productivity.- Chapter 14. Role of Effective Management of Harvested Crop to Increase Productivity under Stress Environment.- Chapter 15. Bioactive Compost for Managing Plant Growth under Stress Environment.- Chapter 16. Salicylic acid: Metabolism, Regulation and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Chapter 17. JA and Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Chapter 18. ABA: Metabolism, Regulation and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Chapter 19. Polyamines: Metabolism, Regulation and Functions in Crop Abiotic Stress Tolerance.-  Chapter 20. Agriculture for Combating Global Starvation.- Chapter 21. Land use and Biodiversity Conservation through Agroforestry.- Chapter 22. Challenges of Stressed Soil: A Case Study of Acid Soil.