Plant Productivity Under Environmental Stress

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A national seminar on approaches for plant production under environmental stresses was jointly organized by Indian Society for Plant Physiology (ISPP) and Rajasthan Agricultural University (RAU) and Durgapura (Jaipur), Research Campus of the University. The present treatise is the outcome of those efforts. The volume includes contributory research papers, and review articles on various basic, application oriented (basic and applied) aspects of plant improvement and management under water deficit (drought), water excess (water logging), temperature extremes, radiation stresses, nutritional deficiencies and toxicities, soil and water salinity and alkalinity, pollution stresses, stresses caused by pathogens, weeds and angiospermic parasites. The volume is meant for plant readers, plant physiologists, crop ecologists (Agronomists), environmental biologists, soil scientists, plant pathologists, seed technologists, plant biotechnologists, molecular biologists, botanists, forest scientists and horticulturists at a common platform, so as to interact deeply with each other. The treatise includes updated scientific information on plants and crops belonging to different economic groups like cereals, millets, pulses, oil seed crops, sugar yielding plants, fruits and vegetables crops, spices, medicinal plants, forest species, plantation crops, fumitories and desert plants, etc.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Karan Singh

Dr. Karan Singh is senior Professor of applied Pant Biology at A.R.S., Durgapura, Jaipur, a constituent campus of Rajasthan Agricultural University. He has contributed more than 100 research papers, review articles and is the author/editor of several scientific books in English and Hindi. He is member, fellow and office bearer of several academic/research societies. He has guided several scholars for Ph.D. degrees of various universities.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.S. Purohit

Dr. S.S. Purohit (b. July, 1948) obtained M.Sc. (Gold Medal) and Ph.D. in Botany from Udaipur University, Udaipur. He was guest scientist in various foreign universities. He has 30 years of teaching experience of UG and PG students specially Plant Physiology and Biotechnology. He has guided 12 M. Phil and 5 Ph.D. students. He is a well known author of 30 nooks of national and international repute. He has edited an International series entitled: Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Development in Six Volumes and two Volumes have been reprinted by W. Junk Publishers, Holland. Presently he is the Managing Director of Agrobios (India) and Chief Editor Agrobios News Letter.

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Plant Productivity Under Environmental Stress
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1st ed.
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425p., Figs.; Tables.
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