Meet the editors

Dr. Mirza Hasanuzzaman is a Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his PhD in Plant Stress Physiology and Antioxidant Metabolism from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Ehime University, Japan, with a Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho: MEXT) Scholarship. Later, he completed his postdoctoral research at the Center of Molecular Biosciences

(COMB), University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Subsequently, he joined the University of Tasmania as an adjunct senior researcher with an Endeavor Research Fellowship from the Australian government. Dr. Hasanuzzaman has conducted research in crop science with a focus on environmental stress physiology since 2004. He has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and books. He has edited thirteen books and written thirty-five book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress responses, and environmental problems in relation to plant species. Dr. Hasanuzzaman is a research supervisor of undergraduate and graduate students and has supervised twenty MS students to date. He is an editor and reviewer for more than fifty peer-reviewed international journals. He received the Publons Global Peer Review Award in 2017, 2018, and 2019. He is an active member of about forty professional societies and is acting Publication Secretary for the Bangladesh Society of Agronomy. He has been honored by different authorities due to his outstanding performance in different fields of research and education. He received the World Academy of Science (TWAS) Young Scientist Award in 2014. He has presented twenty-five papers and posters at national and international conferences in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, Austria, Sweden, and Russia.

Marcelo Carvalho Minhoto Teixeira Filho has a master's Degree (2008) and a PhD (2011) in Agronomy from the Faculty of Engineering of Ilha Solteira (FEIS) at São Paulo State University (UNESP). He completed a short-term internship (2017) as Visiting Professor at Plant Nutrition Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Since 2013, he has been Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Protection, Rural Engineering and Soils (DEFERS)

at UNESP where he teaches the discipline of Plant Nutrition. Since July 2018, he has served as editor-in-chief of the agronomic crop journal *Revista Cultura Agronômica*. He is associate member of the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (ABEC) and current president of the Permanent Research Commission (CPP) of FEIS-UN-ESP. His research interests include plant nutrition, fertilization, soil fertility, improved efficiency fertilizers, plant growth-promoting bacteria associated with fertilization reduction, *Azospirillum brasilense*, wheat, corn, soybean, sugarcane, and eucalyptus.

Dr. Masayuki Fujita is Professor in the Laboratory of Plant Stress Responses, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his BS. in Chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and MAgr and PhD in Plant Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research interests include physiological, biochemical, and molecular biological responses based on secondary metabolism in plants under various abiotic

Contents

**Section 1**

Effect of Abiotic Stress on Crops

*Disha Patel and Mohini Patel*

*by Naoki Moritsuka*

**Preface V**

Crop Production and Farming System **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 61**

**Chapter 5 67**

**Chapter 6 93**

Soil Management **109**

**Chapter 7 111**

*by Summy Yadav, Payal Modi, Akanksha Dave, Akdasbanu Vijapura,* 

Possibility of No-Input Farming in Lowland Rice Fields in Japan

Crops Diversification and the Role of Orphan Legumes to Improve

*by Patricia Vidigal, Maria Manuel Romeiras and Filipa Monteiro*

from the Viewpoint of Sustaining Soil Fertility

the Sub-Saharan Africa Farming Systems

Review on the Role of Salicylic Acid in Plants *by Ali S. Hassoon and Inas Abdulsattar Abduljabbar*

*by Gülsün Elif Vural, Esin Ari, Sinan Zengin* 

Soil Management in Sustainable Agriculture

*and Sekure Sebnem Ellialtioglu*

*by Salih Kafkas*

*by Koç Mehmet Tuğrul*

**Section 2**

SSR Markers in the Genus *Pistacia*

Development of Androgenesis Studies on Eggplant (*Solanum melongena* L.) in Turkey from Past to Present

and biotic stresses; phytoalexin, cytochrome P450, glutathione S-transferase, and phytochelatin; and redox reactions and antioxidants. In the last decade, his work has focused on oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in plants under environmental stress. His group investigates the role of different exogenous protectants in enhancing antioxidant defense and methylglyoxal detoxification systems in plants. Dr. Fujita has supervised four MS students and thirteen PhD students. He has edited ten books and published about 150 papers and chapters in journals and books.

Thiago Nogueira earned his PhD in Agriculture and Environmental Chemistry from the Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo, in 2012. He was a postdoctoral associate at the University of Florida, USA, and a research scholar at Rothamsted Research, UK. He is Assistant Professor at São Paulo State University (UNESP) where he currently teaches "Soil Fertility" and "Soil Conservation and Management." He has pub-

lished more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in reputed international journals and conferences, as well as two textbooks. He served as principal investigator on five government and industry research projects. His current research interests include nutrient management in agroecosystems, heavy metals in soils, waste management for sustainable agriculture, soil fertility, soil quality for food security, environmental chemistry, and fertilizers. He is an active member of a number of organizations including the Brazilian Society of Soil Science and the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry.
