**4. Conclusions**

Effect of abiotic stresses increases due to worldwide climate change. The holistic breeding approach combines different cutting-edge/modern breeding strategies (data based parents selection for crossing, rapid breeding, genomics-assisted breeding and haplotype-based breeding) including efficient gene stacking facilitate the development of climate-resilient rice varieties. Genotypes could cope with the climatic threats, increase the varietal turnover of farmers, and contribute to meet challenges of abiotic stress-prone ecosystems through enhancing productivity and sustaining food security. Also, rice cultivation areas will be expanded under the high abiotic stress-prone areas where salt-stress is a key problem for rice production during both dry and wet seasons in different rice-growing countries including Bangladesh. Moreover, the stress related to HNT needs to be emphasized because this stress may also become the challenge for food security where the rice is a staple food.

### **Acknowledgements**

This research work was funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Government of Bangladesh.

#### **Conflict of interest**

No conflict of interest.

*Enhancing Abiotic Stress Tolerance to Develop Climate-Smart Rice Using Holistic Breeding… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.97283*
