Description: 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.Brief description: Mirza Hasanuzzaman is a professor of agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his PhD from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences. Later, he completed his postdoctoral research in the Center of Molecular Biosciences (COMB), University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. Subsequently, he became an adjunct senior researcher at the University of Tasmania with an Australian government's Endeavour Research Fellowship. Over his career he has mentored numerous master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral researchers and has published widely on plant physiology, plant stress responses, and environmental challenges affecting plant species, including authored and edited books and book chapters. He serves as an editor and reviewer for many peer-reviewed international journals and was a recipient of the Publons Peer Review Awards (2017, 2018, and 2019). He is an active member of numerous professional societies and holds office as acting general secretary of the Bangladesh JSPS Alumni Association and as publication secretary of both the Bangladesh Society of Agronomy and the Weed Science Society of Bangladesh. His honors include the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Young Scientist Award (2014), the University Grants Commission (UGC) Gold Medal (2018), the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) Gold Medal Award (Senior Group, 2022), the Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (GNOBB) Award (2021), and the Society for Plant Research Young Scientist Award (Agriculture, 2023). He is a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Royal Society of Biology, and the International Society of Environmental Botanists, and a foreign fellow of the Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment.