The basic concept of this book is to examine the use of innovative methods augmenting
traditional plant breeding towards the development of new crop varieties under different
environmental conditions to achieve sustainable food production. This book consists of two
volumes: Volume 1 subtitled Breeding Biotechnology and Molecular Tools and Volume 2 subtitled
Agronomic Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits. This is volume 2 which contains 18 chapters
highlighting breeding strategies for specific plant traits including improved nutritional and
pharmaceutical properties as well as enhanced tolerance to insects diseases drought salinity
and temperature extremes expected under predicted global climate change.
