Advances in Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance

Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita, Kamrun Nahar, Jiban Krishna Biswas

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443334665
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Agriculture
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Rice production is increasingly challenged by abiotic stresses—such as extreme temperatures, drought, salinity, and flooding—which undermine both yield and grain quality. Tackling these constraints is crucial for global food security and depends on improved farming practices, the development of resilient cultivars, and the adoption of emerging technologies.Advances of Rice Research for Abiotic Stress Tolerance, Second Edition, integrates new research across multiple fronts, including advances in genetic markers, modern breeding approaches, and biotechnological tools. It updates readers on cutting?edge methodologies to mitigate climate?related impacts and introduces expanded content on microbiome?driven resilience, sustainable cultivation and intensification techniques, and genome editing applications that enhance crop performance under environmental stress. By capturing current global trends alongside practical solutions in rice science, the volume serves researchers, educators, and professionals working across agronomy, plant physiology, molecular biology, soil science, and related disciplines. - Synthesizes multidisciplinary findings to provide a unified foundation for advancing robust and adaptable rice cultivation - Draws together diverse stress response studies, enabling a holistic understanding of how rice performs across contrasting environmental constraints - Highlights evidence-based approaches that illuminate practical ways for strengthening production systems in the era of climate change

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• CHAPTER 1 Managing abiotic stresses in rice agriculture to achieve sustainable food security: the Bangladesh dilemma
• CHAPTER 2 Growth and morphological alterations of rice under major abiotic stresses
• CHAPTER 3 Effects of salinity on rice and rice weeds: short- and long-term adaptation strategies and weed management
• CHAPTER 4 Drought stress and its management in rice: mechanisms, impacts, and adaptive strategies
• CHAPTER 5 Hotter climates, smarter rice: coping with heat stress through adaptive reprogramming and tolerance
• CHAPTER 6 Coping with cold: how rice responds and adapts
• CHAPTER 7 Flooding stress in rice under climate change: physiological responses and tolerance mechanisms
• CHAPTER 8 Metal and metalloid toxicity in rice: stress responses and mitigation strategies
• CHAPTER 9 Aluminum sensitivity in rice: molecular insights into tolerance, with reference to transcriptional and epigenetic regulation
• CHAPTER 10 Strategies to reduce arsenic stress in rice: physiological, biochemical, and molecular perspectives
• CHAPTER 11 Abiotic stress-induced oxidative stress in rice: mechanisms and mitigation strategies
• CHAPTER 12 Engineering abiotic stress tolerance by modulating antioxidant defense systems
• CHAPTER 13 Harnessing biostimulants to mitigate salt stress damage in rice
• CHAPTER 14 Enhancing rice resilience to abiotic stress: the role of osmolytes
• CHAPTER 15 The role of biofertilizers in sustainable rice production under different abiotic stresses
• CHAPTER 16 Agronomic approaches to improve rice production under abiotic stress
• CHAPTER 17 Nanoparticles as emerging tools for enhancing abiotic stress tolerance in rice
• CHAPTER 18 Nano-enabled biochar composites and native fungal symbionts for arsenic immobilization in anaerobic flooded deltaic rice soils
• CHAPTER 19 Molecular tools and strategies to improve abiotic stress resilience in rice: recent progress and future directions
• CHAPTER 20 Proteomics and posttranslational modifications of heat stress-associated proteins in rice
• CHAPTER 21 Developing rice tolerance to abiotic stress through gene editing technologies
• CHAPTER 22 Next-generation biotechnology for improving abiotic stress tolerance in rice
• CHAPTER 23 From conventional breeding to gene editing: advances in biotechnological strategies for improving abiotic stress tolerance in rice
• CHAPTER 24 Strategies for salt stress tolerance in rice: from breeding to genome editing
• CHAPTER 25 Climate-resilient rice crop improvement using CRISPR–Cas technology
• CHAPTER 26 Epigenetic modulation of FKBP12-dependent pathways in drought-induced oxidative stress resilience in upland rice genotypes
• CHAPTER 27 Enhancing rice tolerance to abiotic stresses using plant probiotic bacteria
• CHAPTER 28 Advances in the application of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for abiotic stress tolerance in rice
• CHAPTER 29 Climate change and socioeconomic challenges in rice production
• CHAPTER 30 Phytohormone-mediated improvement of salt stress tolerance in rice
• CHAPTER 31 Seed priming in rice: a promising tool for enhancing abiotic stress tolerance
• Index