Crop Production in Stress Environments : Genetic and Management Option

Contents Crop Improvement for stress resistance perspectives 1. Harnessing science and technology for sustainable rice based production systems/Gurdev S. Khush. 2. Inter linkages and association among stress tolerance traits and their utilization for crop improvement in stress environments/D.P. Singh Ashok Kumar and S.D. Upadhyaya. 3. Client oriented breeding a better way of describing farmers participation in plant breeding/J.R. Witcombe D.S. Virk K.A. Steele A. Mottram S. Gyawali K.P. Devkota A. Musa C. Johansen and K.D. Joshi. 4. Designing of crop improvement and seed production programmes for sustainable production under stress environments/S.K. Rao. 5. Triticale an escalating stress tolerant crop in the Carpathian basin region of Europe/L/ Bona. 6. Prospects of improving drought tolerance in common bean/B.P. Singh I. Rao and S. Beebe. 7. Genetic options for drought management in Sorghum/Belum V.S. Reddy S. Ramesh P. Sanjana Reddy and B. Ramaiah. 8. Genetic enhancement of stress tolerance in chickpea present status and future prospects/P.M. Gaur S. Pande H.C. Sharma C.L.L. Gowda K.K. Sharma J.H. Crouch and V. Vadez. 9. Maize and wheat breeding under stress conditions in Hungary/Pal Pepo Szilard Toth Henriett and Oskolas Zoltan Bodi. 10. Variability among disomic chromosome substitution lines of wheat for content and uptake of important micronutrients/Subodh Kumar Singh R.K. Behl Lokesh Anoop Singh and Neeru Narula. Breeding for resistance to abiotic stress 11. Breeding drought tolerant chickpea genotypes using morpho physiological traits/R.S. Waldia N. Kumar and Preeti Verma. 12. Root characteristics related to drought tolerance in chickpea/Neeraj Kumar A.S. Nandwal R.S. Waldia and R.K. Pannu. 13. Some physiological responses of Snap Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) to Water Stress during reproductive period/Ashok Kumar Hide Omae Koichi Kashiwaba and Mariko Shono. 14. Physiological mechanisms of heat tolerance in snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)/Hide Omae. 15. Plant genes influencing heat tolerance in wheat/Kushal Pal Singh R.K. Behl S.K. Sharma and Sameena. 16. Delayed leaf senescence meteorological parameters morphological traits and their association with grain yield in wheat/Shweta Ahlawat A.K. Chhabra and R.K. Behl. 17. Effect of early and terminal heat stress on biomass partitioning chlorophyll stability and yield of different wheat genotypes/K.D. Sharma R.K. Pannu and R.K. Behl. 18. Response of Sorghum genotypes to high night temperature/Francisco Zavala Garcia Gilberto E. Salinas Garcia and Jose E. Trevino Ramirez. 19. Selection of N use efficient Maize Genotypes/Sain Dass Dharam Pal K.S. Dhanju J.C. Mehla Vineet Kumar D.P. Singh and R.K. Moudgal. 20. Evaluation of pigeonpea genotypes for phosphorus use efficiency/Sunita Sheokand A.L. Patel Ram Dhari and K. Swaraj. Breeding for resistance to biotic stress 21. Exploitation of host plant resistance for the development of Wilt resistant chickpea genotypes/S.K. Chaturvedi and S.N. Gurha. 22. Development of resistant lines of onion against purple blotch/U.K. Khare M.K. Tripathi S. Tiwari and R. Rana. 23. Inheritance and Allelic relationship of genes giving resistance to Pod fly in Pigeonpea (Cajanus Cajan)/I.P. Singh S.S. Lal C.P. Yadava and P.K. Katiyar. 24. Identification of morphological/productivity traits for Chilo partellus resistance in Maize/Sain Dass G. Srinivasan J.C. Mehla R.K. Moudgal K.S. Dhanju Dharam Pal and D.P. Singh. 25. Screening for multiple resistance to biotic stresses in groundnut/P. Venkataravana V. Shankaranarayana N. Janakiraman and V.L. Madhuprasad. 26. Screening of fieldpea genotype against rust/Vinod Singh Ranjeet Singh and R.B. Singh. 27. Screening of Sorghum germplasm against shoot fly (Atherigona soccata Rondani)/S. Upadhyay Usha Saxena and P.N. Gadewadikar. 28. Screening of white onion germplasm for year round production/Vijay Mahajan K.E. Lawande Anil Khar and V.S.R. Krishnaprasad. 29. Morphophysiological disorders induced in damping off p.…