Crop Production for Agricultural Improvement

<p>Crop improvement through different means: Challenges and prospect, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad, Munir Ozturk and Ahmad Aksoy<br/>PART I. Breeding for crop improvement<br/>Bridging genomic and classical breeding approaches for improving crop productivity, Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Tayyaba Shaheen, Muhammad Ashraf, Yusuf Zafar<br/>Breeding for improved drought tolerance, Abazar Rajabi, Eric Schmieder Ober<br/>Breeding for biotic stress resistance/tolerance in plants, Carlotta Balconi, Piergiorgio Stevanato, Mario Motto<br/>The American halophyte Prosopis strombulifera, a new potential source to confer salt tolerance to crops, Mariana Reginato, Verónica Sgroy, Analía Llanes, Fabricio Cassán, Virginia Luna<br/>Breeding for Biotic Stress Tolerance in Plants, L.F. De Filippis<br/>Breeding Wheat for Salt Tolerance and Stem Rust Resistance, Makhdoom Hussain, Aziz ur Rehman, Imran Habib, Mumtaz Hussain, Nadeem Ahmad, Muhammad Arif Khan, Muhammad Hussain and Faqir Muhammad<br/>The potential of breeding okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) for water stress tolerance, Abdul Naveed, Asif Ali Khan, Saeed Rauf<br/>PART II. Biotechnology , Molecular Biology and Genetics<br/>Biotechnology as an aid for crop improvement to overcome food shortage, Khalid ul Rehman Hakeem, Munir Ozturk, Parvaiz Ahmad, Abdul Razaque Memon<br/>Plant Genetic Engineering: Problems and Applications, Bushra Rashid, Tayyab Husnain, Sheikh RiazuddinAgrobacterium tumefaciens and its Use in Plant Biotechnology, İbrahim İlker Özyiğit<br/>Progress and prospects for efficient micropropagation of woody plants, Faheem Aftab<br/>Novel Methods in Micropropagation of Pistachio, Engin Tilkat, Yelda Ozden Çiftçi, Hulya Akdemir, Ahmet Onay, Emine Ayaz<br/>Crop productivity and water use efficiency: The role of carbon isotope discrimination technique, Javed Akhter and Philippe Monneveux<br/>Behaviour of Plant Pathogens for Crops under Stress during the Determination of Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Approaches for Salt Stress Tolerance, Murat Dikilitas and Sema Karakas<br/>Biochemical and molecular aspects of drought tolerance in wheat Triticum L. Genotypes, Rada Mammad Huseynova, Samira Mahammadrahim Rustamova, Saftar Yusif Suleymanov, Jalal Alirza Aliyev<br/>Molecular basis of disease resistance in cereal crops: An overview, Hadi Bux, Muhammad Ashraf, Awais Rasheed, Dipak Sharma Poudyal, Alvina Gul Kazi,  Muhammad Afzaal<br/>Polyamines: Role in plants under abiotic stress, Parvaiz Ahmad, Ashwani Kumar, Aditi Gupta, Xiangyang Hu, Khalid ul Rehman Hakeem, Satyawati Sharma<br/>PART III. Crop Management<br/>Practices in Saskatchewan, Canada, Ahmet Ruhi Mermut<br/>Invasive weed species: A threat to sustainable agriculture, Ghazala Nasim, Asad Shabbir<br/>An overview of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for sustainable agriculture, Rifat Hayat, Iftikhar Ahmed, Rizwan Ali Sheirdil<br/>Arbuscular mycorrhizae for sustainable agriculture, Ghazala Nasim<br/>A site-specific potassium fertilization approach to overcome sporadic response of crops, Abdul Hannan, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Waqas<br/>Optimal Supply of Micronutrients Improves Drought Tolerance in Legumes, Muhammad Yasin Ashraf, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Ashraf, Javed Akhter, Faqir Hussain<br/>Potential of Rhizobia for Sustainable Production of Non-legumes, Ijaz Mehboob, Muhammad Naveed, Zahir Ahmad Zahir and Muhammad Ashraf<br/>Effect of Drip and Subsurface Drip Irrigation with Saline Water on Tomato Crop, Besma Kahlaoui, Mohamed Hachicha, Saloua Rejeb, Mohamed Néjib Rejeb<br/>Lipid and carbohydrate metabolism of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. walp) cultivars in relation to temperature stress, Shahidul Islam, Carmen Rafaela Carvajal Rebanales, James Otis Garner, Jr.<br/>Transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of root nodules of model legume plants, Abdul Razaque Memon<br/>A Review on Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus, Syed Jawad Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Bashir, Naheed Manzoor</p>Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its Use in Plant Biotechnology, İbrahim İlker Özyiğit<br/>Progress and prospects for efficient micropropagation of woody plants, Faheem Aftab<br/>Novel Methods in Micropropagation of Pistachio, Engin Tilkat, Yelda Ozden Çiftçi, Hulya Akdemir, Ahmet Onay, Emine Ayaz<br/>Crop productivity and water use efficiency: The role of carbon isotope discrimination technique, Javed Akhter and Philippe Monneveux<br/>Behaviour of Plant Pathogens for Crops under Stress during the Determination of Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Approaches for Salt Stress Tolerance, Murat Dikilitas and Sema Karakas<br/>Biochemical and molecular aspects of drought tolerance in wheat Triticum L. Genotypes, Rada Mammad Huseynova, Samira Mahammadrahim Rustamova, Saftar Yusif Suleymanov, Jalal Alirza Aliyev<br/>Molecular basis of disease resistance in cereal crops: An overview, Hadi Bux, Muhammad Ashraf, Awais Rasheed, Dipak Sharma Poudyal, Alvina Gul Kazi,  Muhammad Afzaal<br/>Polyamines: Role in plants under abiotic stress, Parvaiz Ahmad, Ashwani Kumar, Aditi Gupta, Xiangyang Hu, Khalid ul Rehman Hakeem, Satyawati Sharma<br/>PART III. Crop Management<br/>Practices in Saskatchewan, Canada, Ahmet Ruhi Mermut<br/>Invasive weed species: A threat to sustainable agriculture, Ghazala Nasim, Asad Shabbir<br/>An overview of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for sustainable agriculture, Rifat Hayat, Iftikhar Ahmed, Rizwan Ali Sheirdil<br/>Arbuscular mycorrhizae for sustainable agriculture, Ghazala Nasim<br/>A site-specific potassium fertilization approach to overcome sporadic response of crops, Abdul Hannan, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Waqas<br/>Optimal Supply of Micronutrients Improves Drought Tolerance in Legumes, Muhammad Yasin Ashraf, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Ashraf, Javed Akhter, Faqir Hussain<br/>Potential of Rhizobia for Sustainable Production of Non-legumes, Ijaz Mehboob, Muhammad Naveed, Zahir Ahmad Zahir and Muhammad Ashraf<br/>Effect of Drip and Subsurface Drip Irrigation with Saline Water on Tomato Crop, Besma Kahlaoui, Mohamed Hachicha, Saloua Rejeb, Mohamed Néjib Rejeb<br/>Lipid and carbohydrate metabolism of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. walp) cultivars in relation to temperature stress, Shahidul Islam, Carmen Rafaela Carvajal Rebanales, James Otis Garner, Jr.<br/>Transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of root nodules of model legume plants, Abdul Razaque Memon<br/>A Review on Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus, Syed Jawad Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Bashir, Naheed Manzoor