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## Meet the editor

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

ment of Agronomy, 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 professor in 2017. Dr. Huang served as a visiting fellow at the International Programs-College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, USA, in 2017 and 2018.

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Preface

The global population will be nearly 10 billion by 2050, which means there will be about 2 billion more mouths to feed than there were in 2022. Rice is one of the most important staple foods in the world, on which more than half of the population relies for more than 20% of their daily caloric intake. It is projected that global rice production will need to increase by 70% by 2050 to meet the food demands of the

Satisfying future rice demands will mainly depend on our ability to improve rice productivity rather than on the area enlargement of rice paddies because of space limitations caused by urban expansion. At the same time, we also require efforts to improve rice quality because the demand and consumption of high-quality rice will increase as living standards improve. Also importantly, we need to develop new technologies and strategies to overcome the constraints (e.g., climate change, soil degradation, and biodiversity loss) confronting the sustainable development of rice

This book describes some challenges, strategies, and opportunities for sustainable rice production. Chapter 1 introduces the distribution, symptoms, biology, survival strategies, and control measures of rice root-knot nematode. Chapter 2 elaborates on the responses of plant morphological, physiological, and biochemical traits to drought stress in rice as well as the conventional breeding approaches and molecular basis for improving drought tolerance in rice. Chapter 3 introduces principles and management practices of gaseous losses of nitrogen from rice fields. Chapter 4 presents a process and architecture for smart rice precision farming schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Finally, Chapter 5 introduces the potential health benefits of brown rice and recently

I am grateful to Dr. Haiming Tang at the Hunan Soil Research Institute, Dr. Xiaowu

**Dr. Min Huang**

Changsha, China

Rice and Product Ecophysiology,

Hunan Agricultural University,

Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Crop Physiology and Molecular Biology,

Pan at the Hunan Rice Research Institute, and Dr. Zhong Ding at the Hunan

Agricultural University for their help with reviewing chapters.

world's growing population.

developed low-protein fermented brown rice.

production.
