Physiological Interventions for Developing Climate Resilient Pulses & Oil seed Crops

Physiological Interventions for Developing Climate Resilient Pulses & Oil seed Crops

by M. Prakash, R. Gomathi, P.S. Babu, M. Vanaja, M.K. Kalarani
 
  • ISBN: 9789390425549
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  • Year: 2022
  • Language: English
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Pulses are the main source of protein and minerals in the vegetarian diet. They are cultivated worldwide as major and/or minor crops to provide the nutrition and livelihood for millions of people. Pulses are a rich source of protein (22–26%) and micronutrients (especially Fe and Zn), serve as a balanced food for vegetarians when complemented with cereals. Also, their cultivation has helped to sustain cereal-based cropping systems through biological nitrogen fixation and carbon sequestration. Oilseed crops are the basis for biological systems that provides not only edible oils, but also contribute to renewable energy production, help to stabilize greenhouse gases, and mitigate the risk of climate change. Since these are primarily cultivated on marginal lands with few inputs in several resource-poor countries of the world, including several in South Asia, they are exposed to various abiotic stresses, leading to significant yield reduction. Furthermore, climate change due to global warming has increased their vulnerability to emerging new insect pests and abiotic stresses that can become even more serious in the coming years. The changing climate scenario has made it more challenging to breed and develop climateresilient smart pulse & oilseed crops. Although they are climate smart, as they simultaneously adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change, their narrow genetic diversity has always been a major constraint to their improvement for adaptability. This collection will provide a comprehensive review on crop improvement, crop production and crop protection in pulses and oilseeds, which will serve as a reference book for research scholars and policy-makers.

Dr. M. Prakash obtained his B.Sc. (Ag.) and M.Sc. (Ag.) from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India in 1988 and 1990 respectively. He did his Ph.D. from Annamalai University. He was awarded with National Merit Scholarship, Government of India during 1981-1988 and ICAR Junior Fellowship during 1988-1990. His expertise in abiotic stress tolerance is well recognised by invitations to serve in the Editorial Board/Committees of several academic journals, Awards and Fellowships like Crop Research Award in 2004, Best Researcher Award in Annamalai University in 2010 and Fellowships like FELLOW of Indian Society of Plant Physiology, New Delhi in 2015 (FISPP) and FELLOW of National Academy of Biological Sciences, Chennai, 2015 (FNABS). Prof. Dr. M. Prakash is having around 28 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided 8 Ph.D. scholars and 22 PG Scholars. His credentials include publications of 130 referred research papers, seven books published by National publishers, and one book chapter published in SESAME by globally reputed CRC Press. He has organized 9 National Seminars and completed five research projects. He has earned the status of Departmental Research Support with Special Assistance Programme of University Grants Commission (UGC-SAP-DRS) to the Department with financial assistance of Rs. 50 lakhs at Phase I(2009-2014) and Rs. 1.025 Crore at phase II (2015-2020) level.

Dr. R. Gomathi, Principal Scientist (Plant Physiology) having 23 years of research experience in sugarcane physiology and molecular biology is working at ICAR-Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Her research work on screening varieties and phenotyping for abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, high temperature, oxidative stress and waterlogging tolerance are highly noteworthy and has practical relevance. She has been associated with standardizing screening techniques for drought, high temperature and oxidative stress tolerance in Sachharum species. Dr. R. Gomathi has associated in identifying 152 drought tolerant clones, of which 10 clones, namely CO 99004, CO 2001-13, CO 2001-15, CO 0218, CO 0403, CO 06027, CO 09004, CO 10026, CO 212 and CO 06022 have attained varietal status. She was instrumental in registration of genetic stocks for waterlogging tolerance (99 WL 379) and for combined drought and high temperature tolerance in CO 06015. Aboutthe Authors v She is recipient of 7 best paper awards and 1 best book award from National and International conferences, Scientist of the Year Award 2017-18 by SVWS, STAI Silver Medal Award, Mother Theresa Gold Medal Award from GEPRA and Professor MS Swaminathan Best Scientist Award for the year 2018-19. She is the life member in 13 professional societies and in 7, she is a Fellow member (Academy of Sciences, Chennai (FAC); STAI (FSTAI) and SED (FSED), India, New Delhi; Member in NASI (mNASI), Allahabad, UP; Bose Science Society (FBSS), Tamil Nadu and Fellow of Indian Society of Plant Physiology (FISPP) New Delhi and Fellow of Agricultural Scientific Tamil Society (FASTA), New Delhi.

Dr. P.S. Basu is serving as Head & Principal Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur. He obtained his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and his field of specialization is Abiotic stress, Photosynthesis & Climate change. He has published about 35 papers in peer reviewed International journals like Frontiers in Plant Science, Functional Plant Biology, Photosynthetica, Field crop Research and BMC Plant Biology. He is a Visiting scientist of JIRCAS, JAPAN. He has been awarded with Crawford International Fellowship of Australia. He is also serving as FAO consultant for Climate change, Bangkok. He has been elected as Fellow of Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development.

Dr. (Mrs.) Maddi Vanaja, Principal Scientist (Plant Physiology), Central Research Institute for Dry land Agriculture (ICAR), having 30 years service in ICAR, Physiological basis of Drought tolerance in rainfed crops and im pactofClim ate Change especially enhanced CO2 levels and its interaction with drought stress and higher temperatures on the productivity of dry land crops. Worked in various research projects dealing with drought and climate change impacts on rainfed crops in collaboration with other Plant Physiologists, Biochemist, Plant Breeders, Agronomists, Plant Pathologists, Entomologists and Agrometeorologists etc. Established the state of art facilities such as Open top chambers (OTCs), Free Air Temperature Elevation (FATE) and Carbon dioxide and Temperature Gradient Chamber (CTGC) facilities at CRIDA to conduct research on the impact of increased Temperature, CO2 levels and moisture stress on the performance of different rainfed crops. Visited Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois USA to understand the design and operation of SoyFACE system and Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre, Beltsville, Maryland, USA to have exposure in conducting experiments under controlled conditions as part of study visit of Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship program. CSIR Fellowship About the Authors / vi from 1985-1990: for pursuing Ph.D. Common wealth Academic Staff Fellowship, 2006 from 2nd October 2006 to 1st April 2007 to conductresearch on‘Response of photosynthesis and oxidative stress to elevated CO2 at normal and drought conditions’ at Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK, Fellow of Indian Society for Plant Physiology, 2015. Having 116 research article published in reputed journal, 87 research papers were presented in national and international conferences and 17 book chapters.

Dr. (Mrs.) M.K. Kalarani, Professor and Head of Crop Physiology, having more than 26 years research experience in field of Plant Physiology at TNAU, Coimbatore and specialized in abiotic stress physiology and published more than 45 research papers related to abiotic stresses in various crops. Developed drought mitigation technology for rainfed finger millet and studied the effects of chromium toxicity on growth and yield of finger millet. Studied extensively morpho-physiological characters and the anti-oxidative system of sunflower genotypes under water stress and also investigated the reproductive responses of groundnut under pre and post-flowering drought. She also involved in the castor variety YTP1 development and released during 2019. She has screened cassava germplasm for salt water tolerance and identified a highly tolerant genotype with salt exclusion mechanism and released as a cassava variety YTP2 during 2020 by TNAU specifically for the regions with high salt in irrigation water. She also developed and successfully commercialized “Castor PGR consortia” in the name of Castor Gold for improving pistillate flower production under abiotic stress condition and involved in the development of “Cassava tonic” for improving tuber yield and starch content in cassava and released technology by TNAU during 2020. Handled 6 externally funded projects from the funding agencies viz., DBT, DSIR, NABARD, SPGF as PI and Co-PI. Undertaken training on physiological and biochemical mechanism of plants for remediating heavy metal pollution in soil in CERAR, University of South Australia. She has guided 5 M.Sc. and 4 Ph.D. students in the Department of Crop Physiology. Three M.Sc. students have worked on role of melatonin in alleviating abiotic stresses viz., Physiological and metabolomic studies of drought tolerance in greengram by exogenous melatonin, mitigation of cadmium toxicity in tomato by exogenous melatonin and mitigation of salt stress in cassava with melatonin and one student has worked on responses of groundnut under pre and post-flowering drought. Two Ph.D. students have worked on abiotic stresses. One worked on Apoplast associated Bacillus methylotrophicus RABA6 induced growth and yield attributes leading to drought tolerance in rice. She studied the drought cum heat stress tolerant genotypes of foxtail and barnyard millet

1. Combined Tolerance to Heat and Drought for Improving Climate Resilience in Pigeon pea (Cajanaus cajan L.) .................. 1 P.S. Basu, Dibendu Datta, Uday C. Jha, Kusum Sharma, Sanjeev Gupta, S. Gurumurthy, Alok Das, Abhisek Bohra, I.P. Singh, Farindra Singh and Sateesh Naik

2. Impact of Climate Change on Productivity of Rainfed Pulse Crops ....................................................................................... 53 M. Vanaja, P. Sathish, N. Jyothi Lakshmi, S.K. Yadav, B. Sarkar, Ch. Mohan, A. Sushma and M. Maheswari

3. Adaptations and Mitigation Strategies for Oilseeds Crops Under Abiotic Stress: Step Towards Climate Resilience .......... 69 P. Ratnakumar, Manikanta C.H.L.N., Brij B. Pandey, Gopika K., Kusumakumari P., Ramesh K., Ramya K.T. and Rathnakumar A.L.

4. Melatonin – An Antistressor Compound and its Role in Mitigation of Abiotic Stresses ........................................................ 93 M.K. Kalarani, P. Jeyakumar, A. Senthil and K. Anitha

5. Drought Management in Pulses: An Overview ......................109 B. Devaraju

6. Molecular Tagging of Disease Resistance in Oilseed Crops .................................................................................135 Kandiah Pakeerathan

7. Yield Parameters of Green Gram Genotypes in Multi Abiotic Stress Environments........................................................185 S. Anandhi Lavanya, C. Vanniarajan and K.K. Vinod

8. Response of Mung Bean Genotypes to Moisture Stress Induced at Different Growth Stages ..........................................193 M. Prakash, K.R. Saravanan, J. Gokula krishnan, B. Sunil kumar, G. Sathiya Narayanan, R. Anandan and J. Kanmani bharathi

9. Impact of Drought on Groundnut at Different Flowering Phases ...........................................................................209 M.K. Kalarani, P. Maheswari, A. Senthil, K. Anitha and V. Geethalakshmi

10. Pulses: An Overview of Physiological and Molecular Biological Interventions for Stress Tolerance............................225 Mareyam Mukhtar., Arul, L., Kumar, K.K., Varanavasiappan S., Sudhakar, D. and Kokiladevi, E.

11. Effect of Viable Mutants in M2 Generation of Black Gram (Vigna Mungo L.) Hepper Through Induced Mutation Under Stress Conditions ..............................................................243 S. Anandhi Lavanya, C. Vanniarajan, J. Souframanien and N.Vairam

12. Effect of Seed Pelleting on Morphological and Nutritional Aspects of Resultant Seed Quality in Blackgram (Vigna mungo L. Hepper) Seedlings under Coastal Saline Condition..................................................253