Cold stress is a major abiotic constraint to wheat production in temperate regions, particularly in the Kashmir Valley of north-western Himalayas, India, where prolonged low temperatures delay growth, reduce yield, and disrupt the rice–wheat cropping system. To address this challenge, we evaluated a panel of 340 nested synthetic hexaploid wheat introgression lines, developed by introgressing allelic diversity from Aegilops tau...

The identification of suitable conservation agricultural (CA) practices plays a significant role in global food security. A 3‐year (2018–2020) field experiment was conducted in Vertisols of the semi‐arid tropics of central India to investigate the effects of CA practices and irrigation methods on the yield, water productivity (WP) and energetics of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.). A split–split plot design was used with three t...

In agro-ecosystem, plant pathogens hamper food quality, crop yield, and global food security. Manipulation of naturally occurring defense mechanisms in host plants is an effective and sustainable approach for plant disease management. Various natural compounds, ranging from cell wall components to metabolic enzymes have been reported to protect plants from infection by pathogens and hence provide specific resistance to hosts a...