Woodhead Publishing Improving Cereal Productivity through Climate Smart Practices

Improving Cereal Productivity through Climate Smart Practices is based on the presentations of the 4th International Group Meeting on "Wheat productivity enhancement through climate smart practices," and moves beyond the presentations to provide additional depth and breadth on this important topic. Focused specifically on wheat, and with chapters contributed by globally renowned pioneers in the field of cereal science, the book helps readers understand climate change and its effects on different aspects of wheat production in different parts of the world. This book will be important for those in research and industry seeking to contribute to the effective feeding of the world’s population. Review "This book, which is part of the Woodhead Publishing Series in Materials, discusses the possible impact of climate change and future strategies to enhance wheat production on a sustainable basis and explores the genetic manipulation of wheat to mitigate the effects of climate change." --FSTA Review Explores ways to improve and increase sustainable wheat yield while enhancing quality attributes From the Back Cover Improving Cereal Productivity through Climate Smart Practices is based on the presentations of the 4th International Group Meeting on "Wheat productivity enhancement through climate smart practices," and moves beyond the presentations to provide additional depth and breadth on this important topic. Wheat researchers around the world are facing the challenge to provide sustainable worldwide wheat productivity levels under changing climate scenarios and also to devise the mitigation strategies to address potential production gaps. Focused specifically on wheat and with chapters contributed by globally renowned pioneers in the field of cereal science, the readers will understand the climate change effects on different aspects of wheat production in different parts of the world. This book will be important for those in research and industry seeking to contribute to the effective feeding of the worlds population. About the Author Dr Sindhu Sareen has more than 25 years of research experience in genetics and cytogenetics. Presently she is working on abiotic stresses particularly heat and drought tolerance. She is associated with various national and international collaborative projects such as NICRA, ICAR extramural research project, National Agricultural Science fund (NASF), DBT – BBSRC, USAID- CIMMYT projects. She has developed various trait specific genetic stocks. She has more than 100 publications to her credit including 70 peer reviewed. 10 book chapters. She is General Secretary of the Society for Advancement of Wheat and Barley Research. She organized 4th International Group Meeting on “Wheat productivity enhancement through climate smart practices as Organizing Secretary and is a recipient of the YS Murty Young Scientist Award and Best Women Scientist Award. Dr. Pradeep Sharma received his Ph.D. from HAU Hisar. For his PhD thesis, he worked on cloning and characterization of phyto- viruses. He performed his Post-Doctoral Research (2006-2008) at Tohoku University, Japan with Prof M Ikegami as JSPS fellow, where he worked on Genome sequencing and RNA silencing. Also, Postdoctoral work at the ARO Volcani Center, Israel with Prof Y Gafni (2005-2006) nuclear import of genes using yeast one hybrid system, DST Scientist (2006), Visiting Scientist at South Dakota State University (2011) for allele mining and comparative genomics in rice and Oklahoma State University (2016) on small non- coding RNAs. In 2008, Dr Sharma joined the faculty in the Division of Crop Imrovement at ICAR- Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, India where he is Principal Scientist. He directs a research group studying the role of sRNAs and epigenetics for biotic and abiotic stresses, Bioinformatics and NGS based marker discovery in wheat. His group also decoded Ka