Rice Research for Quality Improvement: Genomics and Genetic Engineering

Chapter 1. Origin and Evolution of Rice as Domesticated Food Crop.- Chapter 2. Major constraints for global rice production: Changing climate, abiotic and biotic stresses.- Chapter 3. Germplasm and genetic diversity studies in rice for stress response and quality traits.- Chapter 4. Potentiality of wild rice in quality improvement of cultivated rice varieties.- Chapter 5. Improvement of Rice Quality: The New Revolution.- Chapter 6. Sequencing the Rice Genome: Gateway to Agricultural Development.- Chapter 7. Genomics approaches to understand varietal differences in rice species and genotypes with respect to stress response and quality traits.- Chapter 8. Selection and hybridization techniques for stress management and quality improvement in rice.- Chapter 9. Transformation techniques and molecular analysis of transgenic rice.- Chapter 10. New approaches for improving salt stress tolerance in rice.- Chapter 11. Genomics and biotechnological approaches in generating salinity and drought tolerance in rice.- Chapter 12. An integrated approach for drought tolerance improvement in rice.- Chapter 13. Genomics and genetic engineering to develop metal/metalloid stress tolerant rice.- Chapter 14. Potential biotechnological strategies to improve quality and productivity of rice under arsenic stress.- Chapter 15. Genetic engineering: A powerful tool to abrogate the effect of metal/metalloid toxicity in rice.- Chapter 16. Genomics and genetic engineering of rice for tolerance to ozone and anoxia.- Chapter 17. Physiological and genetic basis of submergence tolerance in rice.- Chapter 18. Transgenic rice for survival in nutrient-deficient soil.- Chapter 19. Genetic engineering in rice to survive in nutrient-deficient soil.- Chapter 20. Developing C4 rice for higher photosynthetic efficiency and environmental stress tolerance.- Chapter 21. Rice tolerance to high light intensity andUV

Aryadeep Roychoudhury is working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He received his B.Sc. (Hons.) in Botany from Presidency College, Kolkata, and M.Sc. in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He did his Ph.D. from Bose Institute, Kolkata, under Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His Ph.D. thesis was mostly based on characterization of different salt-inducible genes in rice. Following his Ph.D. work, he joined as Research Associate (Postdoctorate) at the University of Calcutta, continuing with rice as model system. Dr. Roychoudhury is currently handling several government-funded projects on abiotic stress responses in rice and supervising five (05) Ph.D. students as Principal Investigator. To date, he has published over 110 articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in books of international and national repute. He is a regular reviewer of articles in high-impact, international journals, life member of different scientific associations and societies, and the recipient of the Young Scientist Award 2019, conferred upon him by International Foundation for Environment and Ecology, at the University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.