Biotic Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops
Challenges and Mitigation Strategies
Published on 14. July 2025
475 pages
978-0-443-27325-4 (ISBN)
Description
Biotic Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies explores concepts, strategies, and recent advancements in the area of biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops, highlighting the latest advances in molecular breeding, genome sequencing, and functional genomics approaches. The book highlights a variety of aspects of biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops, from classical breeding, hybrid breeding, speed breeding, epigenetics, gene/quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, transgenics, physiological and biochemical approaches to OMICS approaches, including functional genomics, proteomics, and genomics assisted breeding. This volume has been designed to include the advancements mitigating the effects of bacterial, viral, fungal, and insects-pests.Readers will find this to be a comprehensive resource for anyone working in the field of biotic stress management in horticultural crops, including students, educators, and scientists in industry and academia.
- Highlights recent advances in conventional, physiological, and molecular strategies
- Describes advances in whole genome and next generation sequencing
- Details advanced germplasm tolerance and performance
- Includes the latest OMICS approaches for horticultural crops
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Avinash Chandra Rai | Ved Prakash Rai | Ajay Kumar
Biotic Stress Tolerance in Horticultural Crops
Challenges and Mitigation Strategies
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07/2025
Woodhead Publishing
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1. Horticultural crops biotic stresses in present climatic scenario2. Conventional breeding for biotic stress management in horticultural crops3. Hybrids and biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops4. Speed breeding for breeding the resistant or tolerant crops5. Molecular breeding for biotic stress tolerance in horticultural crops6. Epigenetics in horticultural crops: consequences and application in biotic stress tolerance7. Genomics assisted breeding approaches for biotic stress tolerance8. Functional genomics approaches for combating the effect of biotic stresses9. Crosstalk between miRNA and plant biotic stresses10. Programmed Cell Death in plants: a key player for combating the effect of biotic stresses11. Transcription Factors: A tool box for countering the effect of biotic stresses12. Latest molecular and biochemical approaches for mitigating the effects of biotic stresses13. Current approaches and molecular mechanism in horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of fungal diseases:14. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effects of bacterial diseases15. Current approaches in horticultural crops to mitigate the effect of viral diseases16. Advancement in transgenics for combating biotic stresses17. Recent applications of biotechnological approaches to elucidate the biology of plant-nematode interactions18. Role of phytohormones as master regulators during the biotic stresses19. Use of modern physical tools for mitigating the effect of biotic stresses
