**Meet the editors**

Dr. Shah Fahad is currently working as an assistant professor in Agriculture Department, University of Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He studied in Pakistan at Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural University and Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, where he successfully completed two degrees: a BSC (Hons) in Agronomy and an MPhil in Plant Physiology. As a scholar, he

continued for another degree, in graduate studies at Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China, pursuing PhD in Agronomy, which was achieved with honors in 2015. Mr. Shah Fahad did his postdoctorate at Huazhong Agricultural University in 2017. He is a contributor to many international journals with focuses on global warming and their influences on rice crop attributes in his articles. He is a member of the Editorial Board and a critic of ten international journals.

Dr. Abdul Basir completed his PhD degree from Pak-USA in 2015 and is currently working as an associate professor at the Department of Agronomy, University of Swabi (www.uoswabi.edu.pk). He is teaching courses at graduate and postgraduate levels and performs student counseling. His research interests are residue management under diverse tilling and no tilling system for

improving soil fertility, soil biology, C sequestration, greenhouse gas emission, and crop productivity across diverse topography. Biochar, organic, and inorganic nitrogen sources impact on crop growth and yield. Advance biostatistics, crop modeling, remote sensing, and their application in the field of agriculture are other sources of his interest. He has more than 14 years of research and outreach experience. He is an author and coauthor of more than 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and 7 conference proceedings and abstracts. He developed a wheat variety "Shahkar-CCRI-2013" for rain-fed areas of the country. He has been awarded many international fellowships such as IRSIP and NFP.

Mr. Muhammad Adnan is a lecturer in the Department of Agriculture at the University of Swabi (UOS), Pakistan. Mr. Adnan is currently obtaining his PhD degree (Soil Fertility and Microbiology) from the Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences (SES), University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan, and Department of Soil, Plant, and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State

University, USA. He has received his MSc and BSc (Hons) degrees in Soil and Environmental Sciences, from the Department of SES, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan.

Mr. Adnan's main research interests are soil microbiology and plant nutrition including fertilizer use efficiency, N losses, management of legume N2 fixation for increasing cereal production, and management of organic wastes for sustainable agriculture production. He has published over 73 peer-reviewed articles and has received over 2.4 million PKR in research funding as a Co-PI.

Mr. Muhammad Adnan is the recipient of three Gold medals [one in BSc and two in MSc (Hons)], President of Pakistan award [BSc (Hons)], Indigenous PhD scholarship, and IRSIP grant for Michigan State University, USA, in his educational carrier. He was also awarded Best University Researcher award for the year 2015 by UOS.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Conditions 31**

**Tolerance in Wheat 51** Muhammad Javid Iqbal

**Climate Change 67**

León and José R. Ayala

Chapter 6 **Challenges to Safe Wheat Storage 99**

Wenzhu Yang and Yizhao Shen

and Hani Mohamed Awad Abdelzaher

Chapter 1 **Effect of Phosphorus on Root Signaling of Wheat under**

Aqeel Aslam, Ghulam Shabbir and Shakeel Ahmad

Chapter 2 **Wheat Sensitivity to Nitrogen Supply under Different Climatic**

Veres Szilvia, Ondrasek Gabrijel and Zsombik László

Chapter 3 **Role of Osmolytes and Antioxidant Enzymes for Drought**

Chapter 4 **Wheat Straw Open Burning: Emissions and Impact on**

Chapter 5 **Nitrogen Losses: Gaseous and Leached Nitrogen Balance 79**

Chapter 7 **Quality Assessment of Feed Wheat in Ruminant Diets 115**

Mukhtar Ahmed, Sehrish Khan, Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad

Gisela Montero, Marcos A. Coronado, Conrado García, Héctor E. Campbell, Daniela G. Montes, Ricardo Torres, Laura Pérez, José A.

Arritokieta Ortuzar-Iragorri, Ander Castellón, Gerardo Besga, Ana Aizpurua, Teresa Fuertes-Mendizabal and Jose M. Estavillo

Shaima Mohamed Nabil Moustafa, Haifa Abdulaziz S. Alhaithloul

**Different Water Regimes 1**
