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CROP PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE USE AND CONSERVATION Physiological and Molecular Advances CROP PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE USE AND CONSERVATION Physiological and Molecular Advances Edited by Münir Öztürk, PhD, DSc Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD Muhammad Ashraf, PhD, DSc Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad, PhD Apple Academic Press Inc. Apple Academic Press Inc. 3333 Mistwell Crescent 1265 Goldenrod Circle NE Oakville, ON L6L 0A2, Canada Palm Bay, Florida 32905, USA © 2019 by Apple Academic Press, Inc. Exclusive worldwide distribution by CRC Press, a member of Taylor & Francis Group No claim to original U.S. Government works International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-77188-726-7 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-429-46976-3 (eBook) All rights reserved. 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Description: Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20189067896 | Canadiana (ebook) 2018906790X | ISBN 9781771887267 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780429469763 (PDF) Subjects: LCSH: Agricultural innovations. | LCSH: Food crops—Physiology. | LCSH: Food crops— Molecular aspects. | LCSH: Sustainable agriculture. | LCSH: Agriculture—Environmental aspects. Classification: LCC S494.5.I5 C76 2019 | DDC 338.1/6—dc23 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Öztürk, Münir A. (Münir Ahmet), editor. Title: Crop production technologies for sustainable use and conservation : physiological and molecular advances / editors: Munir Ozturk, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad. Description: Waretown, NJ : Apple Academic Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018058766 (print) | LCCN 2019004937 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429469763 (ebook) | ISBN 9781771887267 (hardcover : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Crops. | Crop science. | Plant physiology. | Crop yields. Classification: LCC SB185 (ebook) | LCC SB185 .C75 2019 (print) | DDC 631--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018058766 Apple Academic Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic format. For information about Apple Academic Press products, visit our website at www.appleacademicpress.com and the CRC Press website at www.crcpress.com ABOUT THE EDITORS Münir Öztürk, PhD, DSc, has served at Ege University Izmir, Turkey, for 50 years in various positions. He is currently working as Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences. He has received fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Japanese Society for Promo- tion of Science, and the National Science Foundation (USA). Dr. Ozturk has served as Chairman of the Botany Department and Founding Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies at Ege University, Izmir, Turkey. He has served as Consultant Fellow at the Faculty of Forestry at Universiti Putra Malaysia, and as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS) at Karachi University, Paki- stan. His fields of scientific interest are plant eco-physiology, conservation of plant diversity, biosaline agriculture and crops, pollution, biomonitoring, and medicinal and aromatic plants. He has published 40 books, 70 book chapters, and 175 papers in journals with significant impact factors. Khalid Rehman Hakeem, PhD, is Associate Professor at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He completed his PhD (Botany) at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2011. Dr. Hakeem previously worked as Postdoctorate Fellow in 2012 and Fellow Researcher (Associate Professor) from 2013 to 2016 at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia. His speciality is plant eco-physiology, biotechnology and molecular biology, plant-microbe-soil interactions, and environmental sciences, and to date, he has edited and authored more than 30 books with various international publishers. He has also to his credit more than 110 research publications in peer-reviewed international journals as well as 55 book chapters in edited volumes. Dr. Hakeem is the recipient of many national and international awards and fellowships. Muhammad Ashraf, PhD, DSc, is currently working at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan. He has served as Chairman of the Pakistan Science Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan, as well as Visiting Professor at a number of interna- tional universities in the USA, UK, China, Korea, Egypt, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia. He has also worked as Vice Chancellor at the Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan. His primary vi About the Editors area of research is plant stress physiology. His ISI citation index is now over 14,500, and his Google citations are over 30,000. He has more than 500 ISI-rated publications to his credit. He has also authored a number of books published by different international publishers. He earned his PhD from the University of Liverpool, UK, and was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. In 2011, he was awarded a DSc degree by the University of Liverpool, UK. Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan. His research areas include environmental biology and plant ecology. While working with many regional natural and artificial plant communities, particularly those located in the Cholistan Desert and Potohar Plateau, he has highlighted significant spatial and temporal variations occurring in these communities along the environmental gradients. Additionally, he determined the efficiency of various in-situ conservation practices such as fencing on preserving the flora of the natural reserves of Pakistan. These findings have provided efficient measures to support the endangered flora of the region. Out of his research work, he has published 59 papers in ISI-rated journals. Dr. Ahmad has an h-index of 15. He has published four books and has edited two issues of the Pakistan Journal of Botany as a Guest Editor. He is also an author of four chapters in international books. CONTENTS Contributors ..................................................................................................ix Abbreviations ..............................................................................................xiii Preface .......................................................................................................xvii 1. Plant Genetic Resources of Major and Minor Crops: Origin, Sustainable Use, and Conservation ..................................................1 Mansoor Hameed, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad, Muhammad Ashraf, Münir Öztürk, and Sana Fatima 2. Wheat Production Technology: A Preamble to Food Security in Pakistan .....................................................................................................45 Ijaz Rasool Noorka and J. S. (Pat) Heslop-Harrison 3. Capsaicin Production in Cell Suspension Cultures of Capsicum annuum L. ....................................................................................61 Bengu Turkyilmaz Unal and Cemil Islek 4. Drought-Induced Changes in Growth, Photosynthesis, and Yield Traits in Mungbean: Role of Potassium and Sulfur Nutrition .................75 Shahid Umar, Naser A. Anjum, Parvaiz Ahmad, and Muhammad Iqbal 5. Cotton, White Gold of Pakistan: An Efficient Technique for Bumper Crop Production .............................................................................87 Ijaz Rasool Noorka, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal, Münir Öztürk, Muhammad Rafiq Shahid, and Ihsan Khaliq 6. Corchorus Species: Jute: An Overutilized Crop.........................................97 M. Mahbubul Islam 7. Recent Developments in the Biosystematics and Molecular Biology of Sugarcane ..................................................................................131 Khushi Muhammad, Waqar Ahmad, Habib Ahmad, Ezed Ali, Javed Iqbal, Yong-Bao Pan, and Khalid Rehman Hakeem 8. Comparative Study of Three Different Fertilizers on Yield and Quality of Capsicum ...................................................................155 Sameen Ruqia Imadi, Kanwal Shahzadi, and Alvina Gul viii Contents 9. Comparative Study of Three Different Fertilizers on Yield and Quality of Solanum ....................................................................175 Sameen Ruqia Imadi, Kanwal Shahzadi, and Alvina Gul 10. Biology and Biotechnological Advances in Apple: Current and Future Scenario .....................................................................197 Wajida Shafi, Sumira Jan, Shafia Zaffar Faktoo, Javid Iqbal Mir, and Muneer Sheikh 11. Pears (Pyrus) of Northern Pakistan ...........................................................259 Mohammad Islam and Habib Ahmad 12. Enhancing the Drought Tolerance in Eggplant by Exogenous Application of Osmolytes in Water-Deficit Environments ......................283 Maham Saddique and Muhammad Shahbaz 13. Enhancing Morpho-Physiological Responses and Yield Potential in Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L. Moench) under Salinity Stress ..........303 Maria Naqve and Muhammad Shahbaz 14. Sugar Beet: An Overutilized Ancient Crop ..............................................321 Kadriye Taşpinar, Münir Öztürk, Volkan Altay, and Halil Polat 15. An Overutilized Industrial Crop: Tobacco: Nicotiana tabacum L. Case Study from Turkey .............................................................................365 H. Vakıf Mercımek, Volkan Altay, Münir Öztürk, Eren Akcıcek, and Salih Gucel 16. Wild Relatives and Their Role in Building Resistance in Bread Wheat: At a Glance ..........................................................................395 Sameen Ruqia Imadi and Alvina Gul 17. Structural and Functional Genomics of Potato (Solanum tuberosum) ..................................................................................417 Aqsa Abbasi, Ayesha Sajid, and Alvina Gul Index .....................................................................................................................439 CONTRIBUTORS Aqsa Abbasi Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan Habib Ahmad Department of Genetics, Hazara University Mansehra–21300, Pakistan/Vice Chancellor, Islamia College University, Peshawar, Pakistan, Tel.: +92- (0)997–414131, E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected] Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (38040), Pakistan, E-mail: [email protected] Parvaiz Ahmad Department of Botany,S.P. College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India Waqar Ahmad Department of Genetics, Hazara University Mansehra–21300, Pakistan, E-mail: [email protected] Eren Akcıcek Ege University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Izmir, Turkey Ezed Ali Department of Genetics, Hazara University Mansehra–21300, Pakistan, E-mail: [email protected] Volkan Altay Biology Department, Faculty of Science and Arts, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey Naser A. Anjum Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202002, India Muhammad Ashraf Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan Shafia Zaffar Faktoo ICAR- Central Institute of Temperate Horticulture, Rangreth, Air Field, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India Sana Fatima Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (38040), Pakistan Salih Gucel Botany Department and Center for Environmental Studies, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey Alvina Gul Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, E-mail: [email protected] Khalid Rehman Hakeem Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, E-mail: [email protected]
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