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CLIMATE DYNAMICS IN
HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE
VOLUME 2
Impact, Adaptation, and Mitigation
Edited by
M. L. Choudhary, PhD, V. B. Patel, PhD,
Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui, PhD,
and R. B. Verma, PhD
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CONTENTS
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List of Contributors..................................................................................... xi
List of Abbreviations...................................................................................xv
Preface..................................................................................................... xvii
1.
Global Climate Change and Indian Horticulture..................................... 1
K. L. Chadha
2.
Climate Change Prediction: Uncertainties and Accuracies................... 27
K. K. Singh
3.
Climate Change and Rainfed Horticulture............................................. 35
N. N. Reddy and B. Venkateswarlu
4.
Climate Resilient Horticulture Based Agrarian Livelihood in
the Eastern Region..................................................................................... 47
Bikash Das, V. B. Patel, S. Kumar, and B.P. Bhatt
5.
Climate Resilient Horticulture for North Eastern India........................ 77
A. K. Jha, V. K. Verma, N. A. Deshmukh, R. K. Patel, and S. V. Ngachan
6.
Climatic Issues Affecting Sustainable Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.)
Production in Eastern India...................................................................... 95
Rajesh Kumar
7.
Climate Change Resilient Island Horticulture.......................................111
D. R. Singh, Shrawan Singh, and S. Dam Roy
8.
Global Climate Change: Myth, Reality and Mitigation....................... 125
B. B. Mishra and Richa Roy
9.
Nanotechnology, Plant Nutrition and Climate Change........................ 141
S. Kundu, Tapan Adhikari, and A. Subba Rao
10. Phytopathosystem Modification in Response to Climate Change....... 161
Lajja Vati and A. Ghatak
11. Soil Fertility Dynamics vis-à-vis Climate Change in Citrus................ 179
A. K. Srivastava
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12. Soil Solarization and Moisture Conservation Practices to
Combat Climate Change......................................................................... 213
Pramod Kumar, Som Dev Sharma, Shailendra Kumar Yadav and Vinod Kumar
13. BiocharTechnology for Sustainable Horticulture................................. 229
Anshuman Kohli, Yanendra Kumar Singh, Manoj Kumar Dwivedi and
Shashi Bhushan Kumar
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14. Mycorrhizal Fungi in Sustainable Horticultural Production under
Changing Climate Situations.................................................................. 239
S. K. Singh, V. B. Patel, A. K. Singh, and M. K. Verma
15. Impact of Climate Change on Plant Pathogens.................................... 261
Ritesh Kumar, Sudarshan Maurya, Jaipal Singh Choudhary, and Shivendra Kumar
16. Quality of Fruits in the Changing Climate............................................ 269
Md. Abu Nayyer, Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui, and Kalyan Barman
17. Homa Therapy an Effective Tool in Mitigating Soil, Water
and Environmental Crises....................................................................... 279
R. K. Pathak and E. Ulrich Berk
18. Awareness about Climate Change: Perception and Action.................. 299
Aditya and B. Kumar
19. Climate Change and Indian Agriculture............................................... 309
Md. Hedayetullah, Parveen Zaman, Shailendra Kumar Yadav, Md. Abu Nayyer, and
Mohammed Wasim Siddiqui
20. Climate Change: Impact on Pollinators’ Biodiversity in Vegetable
Crops......................................................................................................... 327
Tamoghna Saha, Nithya C. and S. N. Ray
21. Climate Change Impacts on Field and Horticultural Crops with
Special Reference to Bihar, Possible Adaptation Strategies and
Mitigation Options................................................................................... 341
A. Abdul Haris, B. P. Bhatt, and Vandna Chhabra
Index........................................................................................................... 351
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