Crop improvement through different means: Challenges and prospect.- PART I. BREEDING FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT.- Bridging genomic and classical breeding approaches for improving crop productivity.- Breeding for improved drought tolerance.- Breeding for biotic stress resistance/tolerance in plants.- The American halophyte Prosopis strombulifera, a new potential source to confer salt tolerance to crops.- Breeding for Biotic Stress Tolerance in Plants.- Breeding Wheat for Salt Tolerance and Stem Rust Resistance.- The potential of breeding okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) for water stress tolerance.- PART II. BIOTECHNOLOGY , MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS.- Biotechnology as an aid for crop improvement to overcome food shortage.- Plant Genetic Engineering: Problems and Applications.- Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its Use in Plant Biotechnology.- Progress and prospects for efficient micropropagation of woody plants.- Novel Methods in Micropropagation of Pistachio.- Crop productivity and water useefficiency: The role of carbon isotope discrimination technique.- Behaviour of Plant Pathogens for Crops under Stress during the Determination of Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Approaches for Salt Stress Tolerance.- Biochemical and molecular aspects of drought tolerance in wheat Triticum L. Genotypes.- Molecular basis of disease resistance in cereal crops: An overview.- Polyamines: Role in plants under abiotic stress.- PART III. CROP MANAGEMENT.- Practices in Saskatchewan, Canada.- Invasive weed species: A threat to sustainable agriculture.- An overview of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for sustainable agriculture.- Arbuscular mycorrhizae for sustainable agriculture.- A site-specific potassium fertilization approach to overcome sporadic response of crops.- Optimal Supply of Micronutrients Improves Drought Tolerance in Legumes.- Potential of Rhizobia for Sustainable Production of Non-legumes.- Effect of Drip and Subsurface Drip Irrigation with Saline Water on Tomato Crop.- Lipid and carbohydrate metabolism of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. walp) cultivars in relation to temperature stress.- Transcriptomics and proteomics analysis of root nodules of model legume plants.- A Review on Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus.
