Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes

Dr. Parvaiz AhmadDepartment of Botany, Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, IndiaDr. Mohd Rafiq WaniDepartment of Botany, Govt. Degree College (Boys), Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, IndiaProf. Dr. Mohamed Mahgoub AzoozDepartment of Botany, South Valley University, Qena, EgyptDr. Lam-Son Phan TranSignaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

• Brassicas: Responses and Tolerance To Heavy Metal Stress.- Recent Advances in Rapid and Sensitive Screening For Abiotic Stress Tolerance.- Transcriptomics of Heat Stress in Plants.- Biotic Stress and Crop Improvement.- Salt Stress and Sugar Beet Improvement: Challenges and Opportunities.- Genotypic Variation for Drought Tolerance in Wheat Plants.- Soil Contaminants: Sources, Effects and Approaches for Remediation.- Role of Macronutrients in Plant Growth and Acclimation: Recent Advances and Future Prospective.- Mutation Breeding: A Novel Technique for Genetic Improvement of Pulse Crops Particularly Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.).- Organic Farming: The Return To Nature.- The Role of Cytological Aberrations in Crop Improvement Through Induced Mutagenesis.- Wheat Improvement: Historical Perspective and Mutational Approach-A Review.- Cotton Leaf Curl Virus Disease Predictive Model Based on Environmental Variables.- Transcription Factors in Abiotic Stress Responses -Their Potentials in Crop Improvement.