Horticulture for Food and Environment Security

Contents: Preface. I. Global scenario of horticulture: 1. The global horticulture initiative: its vision and development priorities/Norman E. Looney. 2. Global developments in micropropagation and their scope in India/B.S. Ahloowalia. 3. Grafting an effective tool for abiotic stress alleviation in vegetables/Giluseppe Colla, Pradeep Kumar, Mariateresa Cardarelli and Youssef Rouphael. 4. Priorities for post-harvest management research in tropical and sub-tropical fruit crops/Zora Singh. 5. Genomics of horticultural crops/N.K. Singh. II. New tools and novel biotechnological applications in horticulture: 6. Vegetables breeding with biotechnological tools/Sushma Jha, Anshuman Tiwari, Narendran Nair, Venugopal Mikkilineni and Usha Barwale Zehr. 7. Novel genes and potential of Allele mining/Akella Vani. 8. Future prospects of fruit biotechnology-an Indian perspective/Anshuman Singh and A.K. Singh. 9. Recent advances in molecular breeding of perennial spice crops/K. Nirmal Babu, Cissin Jose, Va.A. Parthasarathy and K.V. Peter. 10. Potential and scope of nano-technology in horticulture/V. Ponnuswami, S. Muthu Kumar and K. Padmadevi. III. Research priorities in horticulture: 11. Research priorities in tropical and subtropical fruit crops/H. Ravishankar. 12. Research priorities in temperate horticulture/Nazeer ahmed. 13. Research priorities in vegetable crops/A.S. Sidhu and E.S. Rao. 14. Research priorities in potato and tuber crops/Prakash, S. Naik and Swarup K. Chakrabarti. 15. Research priorities in plantation and spice crops/P. Rethinam. 16. Research priorities in floriculture/Ramesh Kumar, A.K. Tiwri, Jyoti Majumder, Tarak Nath Saha and Ganesh B. Kadam. IV. HI-Tech Interventions in horticulture: 17. Urban and peri-urban horticulture: opportunities in Idnia/M.L. Chadha. 18. Potential and scope of high value vegetable crops for domestic and export markets/Pritam Kalia and Partha Saha. 20. Protected vegetable cultivation technologies for higher productivity/Balraj Singh and Naved Shabir. 21. Opportunities and scope of cultivated edible specialty mushrooms in India/B.L. Dhar, Neeraj Shrivastava, Himanshu, Jitendra Kumar, Sonika Tyagi and Priyanka Atrey. 22. Rootstocks for fruit crops: current scenario and thrust areas/S.K. Mitra. 23. Management practices for ultra-high density planting UHDP system in mango/N. Kumar. 24. GIS application for crop diversification/Shailendra Rajan. V. Abiotics stress mitigation and management in horticulture crops: 25. Abiotic stresses in horticulture: challenges and management strategies/Gurbachan Singh. 26. Climate change and fruit production: implications and mitigation strategies/Anil Kumar Singh, Shivendra Kumar and Bikash Das. 27. Water stress on growth and quality of fruits: impact and management/P.S. Minhas and P. Suresh Kumar. 28. Greening wastelands through horticulture crops/P.S. Pathak. 29. Managing horticultural crops in Saline and sodic soils/L.R. Varalakshmi and A.N. Ganeshamurthy. 30. Micronutrient management in horticulture crops/G.C. Satisha and A.N. Ganeshamurthy.  VI: Biotic stress mitigation and management in horticulture crops: 31. How enigmatic are the enigmatic biotic stresses of horticultural crops in India?/Anupam Varma. 32. IPM for biotic stress management in horticultural crops/N.K. Krishna Kumar, R.D. Rawal and M. Nagesh. 33. Challenges in biotic stress management of horticultural crops/T.P. Rajendran. 34. Forecasting of disease and pests affecting horticultural crops in India/B.P. Singh, Subhash Chander and Sanjeev Sharma. 35. Novel fungicides in horticulture crops: prospects and limitations/T.S. Thind. 36. Biopesticides: new formulations for sage and sustainable horticulture/B.S. Parmar. 37. Genome wide comparative analysis of defense response genes in horticultural crops/Hukam C. Rawal, N.K. Singh and T.R. Sharma. VII. Advances in post-harvest management of horticulture crops: 38. Pre and post-harvest treatments for extending shelf-life of horticultural produce/R.K. Pal. 39. Processing technologies for fruits and vegetables: status and scope in India/R.K. Gupta and S.K. Sharma. 40. Processing conditions of fruits and vegetables and product quality/S. Rajarathnam. 41. Extraction and use of bioactive compounds from horticultural crops: emerging technologies/Suresh Walia. 42. Management of fruit and vegetable processing and wastes/V.K. Joshi. VIII. Re-orienting horticulture education: 43. Reorienting horticultural education in India/B.S. Chundawat. 44. Reorienting horticultural education in India/K.V. Peter. 45. Reorienting horticultural education in India/D.S. Rathore. 46. Reorienting horticultural education in India/R.P. Awashi and S.K. Upadhyay. 47. Reorienting horticultural education in India/D.P. Ray. 48. Reorienting horticultural education in India/M.L. Choudhary. 49. Reorienting horticultural education in India/T.A. More. 50. Reorienting horticultural education in India/K.E. Lawande. IX. Innovative marketings strategies in horticulture: 51. Agricultural marketing reforms: issues and challenges/Gokul Patnaik. 52. Improving supply chain management of vegetables: Indian experience/Chengappa, P.G. Nagaraj, N. and Vijayalakshmi Dega. 53. Organized retailing of horticultural commodities/Piyush Kumar Sinha and Sujo Thomas. 54. Linking farmers to markets: institutional innovations/Pratap S. Birthal. 55. Horticultural market information and intelligence system in India/N. Raveendaran. 56. Fruit and vegetable marketing in rural India: indigenous approaches/Nagendra P. Singh.

The book entitled Horticulture for Food and Environment Security is a compilation of 56 lectures on diverse issues in Horticulture given from senior scientists and experts from India and abroad. It covers themes like global horticulture scenario, peri-urban and urban horticulture use of cutting edge technologies and biotechnological tools like, micropropagation, genomics, tailor-made improved varieties for different uses, precision breeding methodologies novel genes and allele mining GM crops, nanotechnology, mitigation and management of abiotic and biotic stresses covering climate change, salinity, moisture stress and biotic stresses like major enigmatic diseases, disease management strategies, IPM, new molecules and pesticidal residues.