Sustainable Agriculture for Zero Hunger: Combating Abiotic Stress
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Department of Botany, Asutosh College, Kolkata-700026 ,IN
Supatra Sen
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Environmental stress, Sustainability, Crop stress physiology, Phytonanotechnology, Stress priming, Stress resilient crops.Abstract
To meet the rising food and feed crisis, rigorous control of productivity and yield losses in agriculture due to environmental stress must be executed. Coupled with climate change, abiotic stress is causing havoc to crop physiology, productivity and quality of agricultural produce. With the SDG 2 target of Zero Hunger to a population of 8.5 billion by 2030, such massive loss of agricultural yield and economy poses a huge challenge. Stress mediated responses of plants are multiple and varied. Detailed research on the varied stress responses of plants and the biotechnological interventions to combat abiotic stress could usher in a new era of sustainable agriculture. A major objective in plant breeding is the development of stress resilient crops and economically important plants with the potential to combat and adapt to abiotic stress. Plant extracts, essential oils, agricultural product waste materials, plant growth promoting bacteria, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus may be suggested for a paradigm shift towards sustainable agriculture.
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