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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 and genome editing 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.

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Author:   Muhammad Tehseen Azhar ,  Zulfiqar Ali ,  Muhammad Azam Khan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   CRC Press
ISBN:  

9781032712239

ISBN 10:   1032712236
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   21 April 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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