Rice Research for Quality Improvement: Genomics and Genetic Engineering: Volume 1: Breeding Techniques and Abiotic Stress Tolerance (Paperback)

Chapter 1. Origin and Evolution of Rice as Domesticated Food Crop.- Chapter 2. Major constraints for global rice production: Changing climate, abiotic and biotic stresses.- Chapter 3. Germplasm and genetic diversity studies in rice for stress response and quality traits.- Chapter 4. Potentiality of wild rice in quality improvement of cultivated rice varieties.- Chapter 5. Improvement of Rice Quality: The New Revolution.- Chapter 6. Sequencing the Rice Genome: Gateway to Agricultural Development.- Chapter 7. Genomics approaches to understand varietal differences in rice species and genotypes with respect to stress response and quality traits.- Chapter 8. Selection and hybridization techniques for stress management and quality improvement in rice.- Chapter 9. Transformation techniques and molecular analysis of transgenic rice.- Chapter 10. New approaches for improving salt stress tolerance in rice.- Chapter 11. Genomics and biotechnological approaches in generating salinity and drought tolerance in rice.- Chapter 12. An integrated approach for drought tolerance improvement in rice.- Chapter 13. Genomics and genetic engineering to develop metal/metalloid stress tolerant rice.- Chapter 14. Potential biotechnological strategies to improve quality and productivity of rice under arsenic stress.- Chapter 15. Genetic engineering: A powerful tool to abrogate the effect of metal/metalloid toxicity in rice.- Chapter 16. Genomics and genetic engineering of rice for tolerance to ozone and anoxia.- Chapter 17. Physiological and genetic basis of submergence tolerance in rice.- Chapter 18. Transgenic rice for survival in nutrient-deficient soil.- Chapter 19. Genetic engineering in rice to survive in nutrient-deficient soil.- Chapter 20. Developing C4 rice for higher photosynthetic efficiency and environmental stress tolerance.- Chapter 21. Rice tolerance to high light intensity and UV radiation: Genomics, breeding and genetic engineering.- Chapter 22. Improving rice tolerance to low and high temperature stress through biotechnological approaches.- Chapter 23. Biotechnological approaches to develop rice tolerance to low and high temperature stress.- Chapter 24. Influence of night temperature on rice yield and quality.- Chapter 25. Rice tolerance to multiple abiotic stress: Genomics and genetic engineering.- Chapter 26. Targeting metabolic pathways for genetic engineering abiotic stress tolerance in rice.- Chapter 27. Targeting phytohormone levels for genetic engineering abiotic stress tolerance in rice.- Chapter 28. The effect of exposure to a combination of stressors on rice productivity and grain yields.- Chapter 29. Rice Grain Quality Traits: Neglected or Less Addressed?.- Chapter 30. Rice grain quality and abiotic stress: Genomics and biotechnological perspectives.- Chapter 31. Increasing rice grain yield under abiotic stresses: mutagenesis, genomics and transgenic approaches.-