PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR ABIOTIC STRESS MANAGEMENT IN VEGETABLE CROPS

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Published by Mindradix | Academic Publishing Platform • 24 July 2026

Vegetable crops play a vital role in ensuring food and nutritional security by providing essential vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, and health-promoting compounds. However, their productivity is significantly affected by various abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, extreme temperatures, waterlogging, and nutrient imbalances. With the increasing impact of climate change, understanding the nature of these stresses and developing effective management strategies has become essential for sustainable vegetable production. Practical Manual for Abiotic Stress Management in Vegetable Crops has been carefully prepared to provide students, researchers, academicians, and professionals with practical knowledge of stress identification, evaluation techniques, experimental methodologies, and stress management practices in vegetable crops. The manual presents well-structured practical exercises covering morphological, physiological, and biochemical approaches for assessing stress tolerance, along with short-term experimental protocols and the use of chemicals for stress alleviation.