Meet the editor

Dr. Min Huang received his bachelor's degree in Biological Science from Zhejiang Normal University, China in 2005, and obtained his master's degree and Ph.D. in Crop Cultivation and Farming System from Guangxi University (GXU) and Hunan Agricultural University (HNAU), China in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He successively held the positions of assistant and associate professor in the Department of Agronomy at GXU from

2012 to 2014. He joined the faculty in the Department of Agronomy at HNAU as an associate professor in 2015 and was promoted to the position of professor in 2017. He served as a visiting fellow at the International Programs-College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, USA in 2017 and 2018.

Contents

**Section 1**

*by Manonmani Swaminathan*

*and Aravind Kumar Jukanti*

**Preface XIII**

Crop Improvement and Breeding **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 33**

**Chapter 3 59**

**Chapter 4 71**

**Chapter 5 91**

**Chapter 6 109**

Progress and Prospects of Two Line Rice Breeding in India

Rice Aroma: Biochemical, Genetics and Molecular Aspects

Aromatic Rice of India: It's Types and Breeding Strategies

*Subhash Mishra, Shiva Mohan, Chhavi, Akanksha Singh,* 

*Avinash Kumar Singh and Hemant Kumar Jaiswal*

of Salinity Stress Tolerant Cultivars in Rice *by Sathees Nagarajan, Nirubana Varatharajan and Renganathan Vellaichamy Gandhimeyyan*

Breeding Rice for Sustainable Bioenergy Production

*by Aarti Sharma, Sandhya, Akanksha Srivastava, Snehanshu Singh,* 

Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Rice: Insight in Climate Change Scenario *by Manoj Kumar, Sandhya, Pawan Kumar, Akash Gaurav Singh* 

Understanding the Responses, Mechanism and Development

*by Manasi Dash, Abinash Mishra and Mahendra Kumar Mohanty*

and Its Extraction and Quantification Methods *by Nirubana Varatharajan, Deepika Chandra Sekaran, Karthikeyan Murugan and Vanniarajan Chockalingam*
