Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture
暫譯: 氣候韌性農業的創新

本書探討現代科技如何與農業、土壤和植物互動，以生產強健的作物，並強調氣候變遷的脆弱性、適應性和改善措施對農業可持續性的影響。這些技術的例子，包括基因編輯、基因圖譜、奈米技術、水耕栽培、物聯網（IoT）、人工智慧和無人機（UAV），可能對可持續提高農業生產力的各個方面產生重大影響。本書還介紹了使用人工智慧、機器人技術和其他尖端方法進行電腦建模的重要性，以開發氣候智慧型作物，從而改善受氣候變遷影響的脆弱農業系統的長期糧食安全。本書的主要讀者為專業科學家，以及高年級本科生和研究生。它同樣適用於農業生產力領域，包括奈米技術專家、植物生物技術專家、園藝學家、生理學家和農藝師、育種專家、昆蟲學家、植物病理學家、食品政策分析師和農業數據科學家。

Rajni Rajan, PhD, is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Fruit Science) in the Department of Horticulture at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. She qualified in JRF-NTS, SRF-NTS, and ARSB NET in Fruit Science. She also received awards for paper presentation awards for research work from reputed international and national societies. She has published 25 research papers, 12 book chapters, several popular articles and 2 books under production with reputed journals, magazines and publishers. She serves on the editorial boards of well-known publishers. She has also published three patents, two copyright and two design patent was awarded by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India. She is a lifelong member of many reputable organizations as well. She also contributed in the prestigious United Nations 6th meeting of COP 11 on Cartagena Protocol on biosafety and 11th meeting of COP 11 to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Hyderabad, India. She received certificate of appreciation for her experience in Events and Conference Service Management, Protocol understanding and communication with numerous delegates and organizations from the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India. Her research work focuses on fruit breeding, biotechnology, tissue culture, abiotic stress management, and mutation breeding in fruit crops. She explores the area of genomics, metabolomics, genome editing, and the implication of artificial intelligence in fruit crops.

Dr. Kuldeep Pandey is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Fruit Science) in the Department of Fruit science, College of Horticulture & Forestry, Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India. Earlier, he worked as Subject Matter Specialist in Horticulture (Pomology) at the Farm Science Centre in Saraiya, Muzaffarpur, RPCAU, Bihar, India. His research work focuses on Breeding, Biotechnology, Tissue Culture and Production technology for fruit crops. He is very keen to explore the areas of Climate resilience agriculture, Transgenic technology and effect of climate change on fruit crops. He has developed the world's first ever mango in planta transformation protocol. Dr. Pandey has qualified in JRF-NTS, IARI-SRF and ARSB NET in Fruit Science. He has been awarded prestigious DST-SERB, ITS-International Travel Support to attend International Mango Symposium, at Malaga, Spain in 2023. He has received Chancellors Gold Medal in the undergraduate programme (2015), National Level Gold Medal for Quiz Competition in the 19th ICAR-AGRIUNIFEST at SDAU, Sardarkurshinagar, Gujrat, Best M.Sc. Thesis Award (2019) in the International Seminar on Environmental Issues and Challenges in the 21st Century, sponsored by DST New Delhi, India, and Best Research Scholar Award (2019) by ATEDS, U. S. Nagar, Uttarakhand, India. He contributed 12 research papers, six book chapters, and several popular articles which have been published in reputed journals and magazines.

Faheem Ahmad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at the Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-India. He is the editor of three books and has published over 70 articles and book chapters. He has more than 15 years of experience in plant sciences, and his research focuses on plant stress management via a sustainable approach and understanding complex plant-pathogen interactions for the development of value-added and bio-based products. The long-term objective of Ahmad's lab research is to enhance understanding of the metabolomic response of host plants to pathogens, including plant-parasitic nematodes, via analytical approach and to use this knowledge to provide new resources for reducing crop yield losses. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection (Springer) and an Academic Editor of Peer J-Life & Environment. He has received several fellowships and awards, including the NRF, TSRO Young Scientist, SERB-DST Young Scientist, and TUBITAK foreign researcher award. He is a Fellow of the International Society for Development and Sustainability and Bose Science Society. He has supervised PhD and Postgraduate students. Currently, 03 PhD and 02 Postgraduate students are working under his supervision.

Dr. Chandra Shekhar Seth is an Associate Professor at the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, New Delhi- 110007, Delhi, India. He obtained his M.Sc. degree in Botany from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (U.P.) in 2003 and Ph.D. degree in Botany from University of Lucknow (U.P.) in 2008. He currently teaches the course papers naming Plant physiology and Biochemistry, Topics in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Algae, Environment and Human Welfare at postgraduate level, and Phytohormones assisted abiotic stress management in plants at Ph.D. level. His major research interest area includes how various phytohormones particularly Salicyclic acid (SA), Jasmonic acid (JA), and Nitric Oxide (NO) mitigate the heavy metals (HMs) and salinity induce toxicity in plants, photosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism under abiotic stress, and role of nanomaterials in mitigating the HMs and salt stresses in plants. Oxidative stress and tolerance mechanism via antioxidants and phytochelatins, phytoremediation of HMs, potential use of algae as biofuels, nutrients and pigments are other important interesting area of his work. He is the fellow of two prestigious societies naming Fellow of the Academy of Environmental Biology (FAEB) Lucknow-226020 (U.P.) India, and Fellow Society for Plant Research (FSPR) Meerut-250110, UP, India. He has been the Life members of ISCA (The Indian Science Congress Association) Kolkata-700017, India, ISEB (International Society of Environmental Botanist) Lucknow-226001 (U.P.), AEB (The Academy of Environmental Biology) Lucknow-226020 (U.P.), India, ISPM (International Society of Plant Morphologists), New Delhi-110007, India, and DUBS (Delhi University Botanical Society) New Delhi-110007, India. He has already guided more than 25 M.Sc. dissertation, 04 M. Phil, 03 Ph.D. students, and is guiding 06 more Ph.D. students currently in his focused research areas. He has published many peer reviewed excellent research papers, review papers, and book chapters related to this field. He is an internationally recognized reviewer for many journals as well.

Rajni Rajan 博士目前在印度旁遮普邦法格瓦拉的美麗專業大學園藝系擔任助理教授（水果科學）。她在水果科學領域通過了 JRF-NTS、SRF-NTS 和 ARSB NET 的資格考試。她還因其研究工作獲得了來自知名國際和國內學會的論文發表獎。她已發表 25 篇研究論文、12 篇書章、數篇流行文章，並有 2 本書正在出版中，發表於知名期刊、雜誌和出版社。她擔任多家知名出版社的編輯委員會成員。她還獲得了三項專利、兩項著作權和兩項設計專利，這些均由印度政府商業和工業部頒發。她也是許多知名組織的終身會員。她還參加了在印度海得拉巴舉行的聯合國第六次 COP 11 會議，討論卡塔赫納生物安全議定書，以及第十一屆 COP 11 生物多樣性公約會議。因其在活動和會議服務管理、協議理解及與眾多代表和組織的溝通方面的經驗，她獲得了印度環境與森林部的感謝證書。她的研究工作專注於水果育種、生物技術、組織培養、非生物胁迫管理和水果作物的突變育種。她探索基因組學、代謝組學、基因組編輯以及人工智慧在水果作物中的應用。

Kuldeep Pandey 博士目前在印度北方邦阿約提亞的阿查里亞納倫德拉德瓦農業與技術大學水果科學系擔任助理教授（水果科學）。他曾在印度比哈爾州穆扎法爾普爾的農業科學中心擔任園藝（果樹學）主題專家。他的研究工作專注於水果作物的育種、生物技術、組織培養和生產技術。他非常熱衷於探索氣候韌性農業、轉基因技術以及氣候變化對水果作物的影響。他開發了全球首個芒果的 in planta 轉化協議。Pandey 博士通過了 JRF-NTS、IARI-SRF 和 ARSB NET 的資格考試。他獲得了著名的 DST-SERB、ITS 國際旅行支持，以參加 2023 年在西班牙馬拉加舉行的國際芒果研討會。他在本科課程中獲得了校長金獎（2015 年）、在第 19 屆 ICAR-AGRIUNIFEST 中獲得全國金獎（在印度古吉拉特州的 SDAU）、在 2019 年的國際研討會上獲得最佳碩士論文獎，該研討會由印度新德里的 DST 贊助，以及在 2019 年獲得 ATEDS 的最佳研究學者獎。他發表了 12 篇研究論文、六篇書章和數篇流行文章，這些文章已發表在知名期刊和雜誌上。

Faheem Ahmad 是印度阿利格爾穆斯林大學植物學系的助理教授。他是三本書的編輯，並發表了超過 70 篇文章和書章。他在植物科學領域擁有超過 15 年的經驗，研究重點是通過可持續方法進行植物壓力管理，以及理解複雜的植物-病原體相互作用，以開發增值和生物基產品。Ahmad 實驗室研究的長期目標是增強對宿主植物對病原體（包括植物寄生線蟲）代謝組學反應的理解，並通過分析方法利用這些知識提供新的資源，以減少作物產量損失。他是《植物病害與保護期刊》（Springer）的副編輯，以及《Peer J-Life & Environment》的學術編輯。他獲得了多項獎學金和獎項，包括 NRF、TSRO 年輕科學家、SERB-DST 年輕科學家和 TUBITAK 外國研究者獎。他是國際可持續發展與發展學會和博斯科學學會的會員。他指導過博士和研究生。目前，有 03 名博士生和 02 名研究生在他的指導下工作。

Chandra Shekhar Seth 博士是印度新德里德里大學植物學系的副教授。他於 2003 年在瓦拉納西的班納拉斯印度大學獲得植物學碩士學位，並於 2008 年在盧克瑙大學獲得植物學博士學位。他目前在研究生層次教授植物生理學和生物化學、植物生理學和生物化學主題、藻類、環境與人類福祉等課程，並在博士層次教授植物的植物激素輔助非生物胁迫管理。他的主要研究興趣包括各種植物激素，特別是水楊酸（SA）、茉莉酸（JA）和一氧化氮（NO）如何減輕重金屬（HMs）和鹽分引起的植物毒性、非生物胁迫下的光合作用和氮代謝，以及納米材料在減輕植物中的重金屬和鹽分壓力中的作用。氧化壓力和通過抗氧化劑和植物螯合劑的耐受機制、重金屬的植物修復、藻類作為生物燃料、營養素和色素的潛在用途是他工作中的其他重要有趣領域。他是兩個知名學會的會員，分別是環境生物學學會（FAEB）和植物研究學會（FSPR）。他是 ISCA（印度科學大會）和其他多個學會的終身會員。他已經指導了超過 25 篇碩士論文、4 篇 M. Phil 和 3 名博士生，並目前在他的專注研究領域指導 6 名博士生。他已發表了許多同行評審的優秀研究論文、綜述論文和與此領域相關的書章。他也是多個期刊的國際認可審稿人。