Climate-Resilient Crops

Muhammad Tehseen Azhar is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Plan Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, his primary responsibility is teaching to graduate and post-graduate classes. In addition, his focus is the screening and development of segregating populations resulting in the development of several lines of cotton with higher yield and improved fiber quality traits. Dr Azhar has specific interest in the development of cotton germplasm with tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Zulfiqar Ali is a Professor at the Department of Plan Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Prof. Ali completed his PhD from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan, and postdoctoral studies from Plant Breeding Institute at University of Sydney (2007–2008) and Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences Nanjing (2009–2011).Muhammad Azam Khan is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He is primarily engaged in the teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students. He studied genetics and genomics of host plant resistance to fungal diseases in his PhD.

• Section 1. Important Cash Crops1. Breeding Climate Ready RiceMuhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Farrukh Azeem, Tooba Shahid, and Sammina Mehmood2. High temperature tolerance in cotton Sajid Majeed, Aneeq ur Rehman, Iqar Ahmad Rana, Çetin Karademir, Emine Karademir, Daniel KY Tan and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar3. Hemp as an environmentally friendly cropEleni Tsaliki, A. Kalivas, and I. Ganopoulos4. Climate Resilient Oilseed cropsSidra Iqbal, Ahmed Raza, Muhammad Junaid, Mehwish Kanwal, and Muhammad Rizwan Shafiq5. Modern breeding strategies for heat tolerance in solanaceous cropsFatima Sajal, Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Zulfiqar Ali, Sadia Hakeem, Muhammad Ali Sher, Nadia Ayub, and Mubashir AliSection 2. Risk Assessment Strategies6. Selection criteria for assessment of drought tolerance on physio-morphic attributesKashif Rashid, Husnain Rauf, and Muhammad Azam Khan7. Climate change and stress mitigation strategies in plantsHamna Maqsood, Rabia Nasir Khan, Fiaz Rasul, Muhammad Hussnain Siddique, Habibullah Nadeem, Muhammad Bilal, and Ijaz Rasul8. Sweet potato and Climate Resilience: Strategies and Prospects Wei Tanga, Dandan Wanga, Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, and Qiang LiSection 3. Agronomic/Management Practices9. Plant Metabolites and Climate Resilience: Challenges and SolutionsAsima Rasheed, Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Asad Ali Shah, Muhammad Hussnain Siddique, Muhammad Zubair, and Farrukh Azeem10. Breeding for Stress Tolerance in CropsMuhammad Shehzad, Furqan Ahmad, Akhtar Hameed, Shoaib ur Rehman, Kashif Noor, Saba Yaseen and Zulqarnain KhanSection 4. Techniques for Climate mitigation11. Mitigation of climate change impacts through the development of Genetically Modified CropsMuhammad Tayyab, Ali Ijaz Ahmed, Ayesha Javed, Muhammad Tahseen Azhar, Sultan Habibullah Khan, Rana Muhammad Atif, and Iqrar Ahmad Rana12. New Frontiers in Meiotic Recombination to develop Climate Resilient CropsZeeshan Shamin Allah Bakhsh, Muhammad Naveed Shahid, Muhammad Arshad Javed, Adil Jamal, and Sue J. Armstrong13. Pre-breeding to genetic engineering; A prospectus of developing climate resilient wheat.Hafiz Muhammad Wasif Ali, Sawaira Ashraf, Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, Attiqa Saleem, and Muhammad Ahsan Khan14. Use of molecular breeding to develop climate ready cropsZeshan Hassan, Azhar Abbas Khan, Umbreen Shehzad, Asad Azeem, Sadia Zainab, Mahlka Mukhtar, Zeba Shehnaz, and Zahid Manzoor