Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Breeding for crop improvement -- Bridging Genomic and Classical Breeding Approaches for Improving Crop Productivity / Mehboob-ur-Rahman, Tayyaba Shaheen, Muhammad Ashraf and Yusuf Zafar -- Breeding for Improved Drought Tolerance / Abazar Rajabi and Eric Schmieder Ober -- Breeding for Biotic Stress Resistance/Tolerance in Plants / Carlotta Balconi, Piergiorgio Stevanato, Mario Motto and Enrico Biancardi -- The American Halophyte Prosopis strombulifera, a New Potential Source to Confer Salt Tolerance to Crops / Mariana Reginato, Veronica Sgroy, Analia Llanes, Fabricio Cassan and Virginia Luna -- Breeding for Biotic Stress Tolerance in Plants / L. F. De Filippis -- Breeding Wheat for Salt Tolerance and Stem Rust Resistance / Makhdoom Hussain, Aziz ur Rehman, Imran Habib, Mumtaz Hussain and Nadeem Ahmad, et al. -- The Potential of Breeding Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus L.) for Water Stress Tolerance / Abdul Naveed, Asif Ali Khan and Saeed Rauf -- Crop Improvement Through Different Means: Challenges and Prospects / Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad, Munir Ozturk and Ahmad Aksoy.

Part 2. Biotechnology , Molecular Biology and Genetics -- Biotechnology as an Aid for Crop Improvement to Overcome Food Shortage / Khalid ul Rehman Hakeem, Münir Ozturk, Parvaiz Ahmad and Abdul Razaque Memon -- Plant Genetic Engineering: Problems and Applications / Bushra Rashid, Tayyab Husnain and Sheikh Riazuddin -- Transcriptomics and Proteomics Analysis of Root Nodules of Model Legume Plants / Abdul Razaque Memon -- Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its Use in Plant Biotechnology / Ibrahim Ilker Ozyigit -- Progress and Prospects for Efficient Micropropagation of Woody Plants / Faheem Aftab -- Novel Methods in Micropropagation of Pistachio / Engin Tilkat, Yelda Ozden Ciftci, Hulya Akdemir, Ahmet Onay and Emine Ayaz Tilkat -- Crop Productivity and Water Use Efficiency: The Role of Carbon Isotope Discrimination Technique / Javed Akhter and Philippe Monneveux -- Behaviour of Plant Pathogens for Crops Under Stress During the Determination of Physiological, Biochemical, and Molecular Approaches for Salt Stress Tolerance / Murat Dikilitas and Sema Karakas -- Biochemical and Molecular Aspects of Drought Tolerance in Wheat Triticum L. Genotypes / Irada Mammad Huseynova, Samira Mahammadrahim Rustamova, Saftar Yusif Suleymanov and Jalal Alirza Aliyev -- Molecular Basis of Disease Resistance in Cereal Crops: An Overview / Hadi Bux, Muhammad Ashraf, Awais Rasheed, Dipak Sharma Poudyal and Alvina Gul Kazi, et al. -- Polyamines: Role in Plants Under Abiotic Stress / Parvaiz Ahmad, Ashwani Kumar, Aditi Gupta, Xiangyang Hu and Khalid ul Rehman Hakeem, et al.

Part 3. Crop Management -- Crop Diversification Practices in Saskatchewan, Canada / Ahmet Ruhi Mermut -- Invasive Weed Species - A Threat to Sustainable Agriculture / Ghazala Nasim and Asad Shabbir -- An Overview of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) for Sustainable Agriculture / Rifat Hayat, Iftikhar Ahmed and Rizwan Ali Sheirdil -- Arbuscular Mycorrhizae for Sustainable Agriculture / Ghazala Nasim -- A Site-Specific Potassium Fertilization Approach to Overcome Sporadic Response of Crops / Abdul Hannan, Muhammad Arif, Muhammad Arif and Muhammad Waqas -- Optimal Supply of Micronutrients Improves Drought Tolerance in Legumes / Muhammad Yasin Ashraf, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Ashraf, Javed Akhter and Faqir Hussain -- Potential of Rhizobia for Sustainable Production of Non-legumes / Ijaz Mehboob, Muhammad Naveed, Zahir Ahmad Zahir and Muhammad Ashraf -- Effect of Drip and Subsurface Drip Irrigation with Saline Water on Tomato Crop / Besma Kahlaoui, Mohamed Hachicha, Saloua Rejeb and Mohamed Nejib Rejeb -- Lipid and Carbohydrate Metabolism of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp) Cultivars in Relation to Temperature Stress / Shahidul Islam, Carmen Rafaela Carvajal Rebanales and James Otis Garner Jr. -- A Review on Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus / Syed Jawad Ahmad Shah, Muhammad Bashir and Naheed Manzoor.