New Frontiers in Stress Management for Durable Agriculture
Using accessible farming practices to meet the growing demands on agriculture is likely to result in more intense competition for natural resources, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and further deforestation and land degradation, which will in turn pro
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New Frontiers in Stress Management for Durable Agriculture
Amitava Rakshit • Harikesh Bahadur Singh • Anand Kumar Singh • Uma Shankar Singh • Leonardo Fraceto Editors
New Frontiers in Stress Management for Durable Agriculture
Editors Amitava Rakshit Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry IAR, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Anand Kumar Singh Indian Council of Agricultural Research New Delhi, Delhi, India Leonardo Fraceto Department of Environmental Engineering São Paulo State University Sorocaba, Brazil
Harikesh Bahadur Singh Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry IAR, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India Uma Shankar Singh Center (ISARC) Director of IRRI South Asia Regional New Delhi, Delhi, India
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Preface
Satisfying augmented burden on agriculture with accessible farming practices is likely to lead to more intense competition for natural resources, increased greenhouse gas emissions and further deforestation and land degradation, leading to stress in soil-water-plant-animal continuum. Stress is an unfavourable force or a condition which inhibits customary functioning in plants. Concurrent occurrence of different stresses, i.e. biotic and abiotic, is very frequent in the environment of plants which consequently reduces the
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