Foreword

I am delighted to jot down the foreword for this book that deals with plants’ response to numerous abiotic stresses and various approaches and concepts to mitigate their adverse effects. While the demand for food is increasing continuously, agriculture productivity is threatened by various environmental factors, often related to temperature change and warming. The most typical abiotic stresses affecting the plants are high temperature and drought, resulting in unbearable crop losses. Global temperature change further increases the frequency of warmth stress, flood, and drought, which have a negative impact on crop yield and poses a heavy challenge to global food security. Presently, the best priority to satisfy the worldwide food demand is to sustain and improve crop yield.

This book “Environmental Stress Physiology of Plants and Crop Productivity” edited by Prof. Saroj Arora and Dr. Tajinder Kaur presents a broad picture of plant responses to major abiotic stress factors, plants adaptations during stress conditions like the role of antioxidative system and plant growth regulators, biotechnological approaches for abiotic stress tolerance in plants for sustainable agriculture, and the role of secondary plant compounds and signaling molecules to modulate the oxidative stress in plants under stressful conditions. These topics, written by experts in their respective fields, make this book highly useful to the scientific community. It covers a good range of subjects that provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of how stress tolerance to various environmental factors affects plant growth and development.

I congratulate the editors for compiling this publication that provides the reader the simplest way forward in abiotic stress management to enable more productive agriculture. I am sure that the readers within the field of abiotic stress management, agriculture, and biotechnology will find this book very useful.