Climate-Resilient Crops

Challenges and Opportunities
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-71223-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Climate-Resilient Crops: Challenges and Opportunities offers a clear and concise guide to the development of crops that can withstand the increasing threats of climate change. With rising global temperatures and more frequent extreme weather events, this book highlights innovative approaches in breeding, biotechnology, and crop management to meet future food demands.

Covering a range of important crops—including cereals, oilseeds, fiber, and vegetables—the book integrates current research on stress tolerance, genetic resource utilization, root systems, and the role of plant metabolites. It also explores cutting-edge tools such as omics, genome editing, and nanotechnology for crop improvement.

Designed for students, young researchers, and agricultural professionals, this book delivers practical insights into how science can contribute to climate-smart agriculture. By bridging gaps between disciplines and highlighting new breeding strategies, it serves as a valuable resource for those working to build sustainable food systems in an era of climate uncertainty.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Khan, Muhammad Azam

Ali, Zulfiqar

Azhar, Muhammad Tehseen

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1. Important Cash Crops

1. Breeding Climate Ready Rice

Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Farrukh Azeem, Tooba Shahid, Sammina Mehmood

2. High temperature tolerance in cotton

Sajid Majeed, Aneeq ur Rehman, Iqar Ahmad Rana, Çetin Karademir, Emine Karademir, Daniel KY Tan and Muhammad Tehseen Azhar

3. Hemp as a environmental friendly crop

Eleni Tsaliki, A. Kalivas, I. Ganopoulos

4. Climate Resilient Oilseed crops

Sidra Iqbal, Ahmed Raza, Muhammad Junaid, Mehwish Kanwal, Muhammad Rizwan Shafiq

5. Modern breeding strategies for heat tolerance in solanaceous crops

Fatima Sajal, Muhammad Abu Bakar Saddique, Zulfiqar Ali, Sadia Hakeem, Muhammad Ali Sher, Nadia Ayub, Mubashir Ali.

Section 2. Risk Assessment Strategies

6. Selection criteria for assessment of drought tolerance on physio-morphic attributes

Kashif Rashid, Husnain Rauf, Muhammad Azam Khan

7. Climate change and stress mitigation strategies in plants

Hamna Maqsood, Rabia Nasir Khan, Fiaz Rasul, Muhammad Hussnain Siddique, Habibullah Nadeem, Muhammad Bilal, Ijaz Rasul

8. Sweet potato and Climate Resilience: Strategies and Prospects

Wei Tanga, Dandan Wanga, Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, Qiang Li

Section 3. Agronomic/Management Practices

9. Plant Metabolites and Climate Resilience: Challenges and Solutions

Asima Rasheed, Muhammad Abdul Rehman Rashid, Asad Ali Shah, Muhammad Hussnain Siddique, Muhammad Zubair, Farrukh Azeem

10. Breeding for Stress Tolerance in Crops

Muhammad Shehzad, Furqan Ahmad, Akhtar Hameed, Shoaib ur Rehman, Kashif Noor, Saba Yaseen and Zulqarnain Khan

Section 4. Techniques for Climate mitigation

11. Mitigation of climate change impacts through the development of Genetically Modified Crops

Muhammad Tayyab, Ali Ijaz Ahmed, Ayesha Javed, Muhammad Tahseen Azhar, Sultan Habibullah Khan, Rana Muhammad Atif, Iqrar Ahmad Rana

12. New Frontiers in Meiotic Recombination to develop Climate Resilient Crops

Zeeshan Shamin Allah Bakhsh, Muhammad Naveed Shahid, Muhammad Arshad Javed, Adil Jamal, Sue J. Armstrong

13. Pre-breeding to genetic engineering; A prospectus of developing climate resilient wheat.

Hafiz Muhammad Wasif Ali, Sawaira Ashraf, Muhammad Qadir Ahmad, Attiqa Saleem, Muhammad Ahsan Khan

14. Use of molecular breeding to develop climate ready crops

Zeshan Hassan, Azhar Abbas Khan, Umbreen Shehzad, Asad Azeem, Sadia Zainab, Mahlka Mukhtar, Zeba Shehnaz, Zahid Manzoor

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Zulfiqar Ali is a Professor at 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). He has published more than 80 books/chapters/research papers in highly popular journals like Plant Breeding, Nature’s Scientific Report, Rice, Field Crop Research, PLOS One, and has been serving as the section editor of Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences. Prof. Ali has successfully completed various research projects. Currently, he is running six research projects funded by national and international funding agencies including HEC, PARB, ADP, USAID, DFID, ACIAR, etc. He has been granted awards, including the Gold Medal 2017 in Biotechnology from the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. Dr. Ali has also been awarded with the “National Level HEC Best Teacher Award 2021” by Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan. For over the past 21 years, Prof. Ali has been engaged in the fields of plant biotechnology, breeding, genetics, and molecular biology. His research focuses on climate-smart breeding using functional genomics tools.

Dr 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. Besides, his focus is screening and development of segregating population resulting in the development of several bulks of cotton with more yield and fibre traits. Dr Azhar has specific interest in the development of cotton germplasm having tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses. These advanced strains of cotton has showed good performance for yield of cotton in national traits and those genotypes are suitable for cultivation in high temperature and water stress conditions. Being a Borlaug Alumnus, he worked with various cotton geneticists namely, Dr Richard Percy, Dr Lori L. Hinze and Dr Jame Frelichowsk at Texas A&M University and USDA-ARS, USA. Dr Azhar has completed various research projects funded by Higher Education Commission, Pakistan; CAS-PARB and Cooperation Organization Partnership for Science and Technology, China. Besides, Dr Azhar is Endeavour Alumnus and appointed as Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Plant Biology, UWA. Recently he is appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Agriculture Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. Due to his consistency Dr Azhar is appointed as a Chair of Germplam and Genetic Stock in International Cotton Genome Initiative (ICGI).

Dr Muhammad Azam Khan is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Plan Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-Pakistan. He is primarily engaged in teaching and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students. He studied genetics and genomics of host plant resistance to fungal diseases in his PhD. He has experience working with genetics of abiotic stress tolerance in wheat and brassica, exploiting genetic potential of vegetables under waste wastewater and selection of bio-energy feedstocks. This hands-on experience explains why he is interested in developing climate ready crops. More specifically he is interested in developing brassica types with higher yield while maintaining/improving quality in the face of changing climate. Being a graduate from The University of Western Australia, he is ambitious to explore new avenues in research