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The present book covers the latest development in the field of crop improvement which includes Use of crop wild relatives/Underutilized Plants, Diversification of Agriculture, Biofortification, Organic farming using Vermicompost, Peri-urban farming, Integrated pest management, Post harvest management, Value addition, ‘Omic` approaches for improving crop production, Energy Sustainability, Advancement in bio-nanotechnology with Computational and Statistical tools, which address critical issue for agricultural sustainability for the benefit of researchers, policy makers and government agencies. An important strategy to overcome the challenges in providing food for the world population in a sustainable manner is through concerted efforts by crop scientists to embrace new technologies in increasing yield, quality and improving food safety while minimizing adverse environmental impact of the agricultural activities Thirty noted researchers currently working in crop improvement and related fields bring together the best thinking about achieving crop improvement-especially the development of new genetic combinations; to create a sustainable agriculture.

Contents: 1. Agricultural Distress and Coping Strategies in Haryana/Sandeep Kumar, Gajender Singh, Pawan Kumar, Deepak Kumar Yadav and Ramesh Kumar Yadava. 2. Role of Crop Wild Relatives in Crop Improvement Under Changing Climatic Conditions/Vikender Kaur, Kumari Shubha, Pardeep Kumar, Manju. 3. Crop Biofortification for Malnutrition/Ramadoss Bharathi Raja, Manu Pratap Gangola, Vidhya Venkatesan, Surinder Singh, and Hukkeri Shivappa. 4. Peri-Urban and Organic Agriculture: Thrust areas of Farming/Jyoti Yadav, Swati Sindhu and Jayant Yadav. 5. Bio-nanotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture Development/Gulab Singh and Khushboo. 6. The Potential of Underutilized Plants- Current and Future Perspective/Sanjay Yadav, Pawan Kumar Yadav and O.P. Bishnoi. 7. Biotechnology: A Potential Tool for Upliftment of Economic Status of Farmers/Subhash Kajla, Renu Singh, Anil K. Poonia and Ram C. Yadav. 8. Value Addition to Oilseeds for Their Sustainable Production/G. Nagaraj. 9. Improvement and Cultivation of Medicinal and Underutilized Plants/Nidhi Bhakuni and Rahul Kaushik. 10. Role of Post Harvest Technology of perishables to Feed Growing Population/Suman Bala and Jitender Kumar. 11. Role of Microbes in Agriculture/Mukesh R. Jangra, Sumit Jangra and K.S. Nehra. 12. Classical Biological Control: A Sustainable Approach for Insect Control/Prakash Chand Yadav, K. C. Sharma and A. K. Yadav. 13. Plant Growth Regulators: A Timely Approach for Sustainable Agriculture/Priyanka Pal, Kuldeep Yadav and Narender Singh. 14. Ecologically Based Management Techniques of Rodent Pests/Ravikant and Tejpal Dahiya. 15. Vermicompost to Metagenomics for Agriculture Sustainability/Tejpal Dahiya and Ravikant. 16. Microbes: An Eco-friendly Tool in Crop Improvement/Yogesh Yadav, Sunil Kumar and Narender Singh. 17. Microbial Control of Insect Pests with Special Reference to Bacteria/Krishna rolania, Tarun Verma and Rakesh Sangwan. 18. Pros and Cons of GM Crops/Ram C. Yadav, Sumit Jangra and Neelam R. Yadav. 19. Omics in Agriculture: Applications, Challenges and Future Perspectives/Swati Shalini, Ankit Singla, Meenu Goyal, Vikender Kaur and Pardeep Kumar. 20. Crop Genomics for Food Security/Priti1, Sumit Jangra, Disha Kamboj, Neelam R. Yadav and Ram C. Yadav. 21. Energy Sustainability: Role of Omics Technologies in Bio-fuel Production/Surinder Singh, Shivappa Hukkeri, Manu Pratap Gangola and Bharathi Rajaramadoss. 22. Role of Metabolomics for Crop Improvement/Jyoti Taunk and Jaideep. 23. Role of Biotechnology for Enhancing Yield Under Water Deficit Stress Conditions/Lovejot Kaur and C. Appunu. 24. Proteomic: A Study Towards Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants/Minakshi Jattan, Nisha Kumari and Ram Avtar. 25. Impact of Proteomic Studies for Biotic/Abiotic Stress Tolerant Crops/Sumit Jangra, Aakash Mishra, Neelam R. Yadav and Ram C. Yadav. 26. Transcriptomic Analysis for Abiotic Stress Resistance for Crop Plants/Bharti Aneja, Vishal Sharma, Neelam R. Yadav and Ram C. Yadav. 27. Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance Plants/Chhagan Lal. 28. Commonly Used Computational Tools of Genomics and Proteomics/Anil Panwar, Ajay Pal and Hemant Poonia. 29. Role of Information Technology in Agriculture/KS Nehra, Mukesh R Jangra, Sumit Jangra and Raj Kumar.