Technologies for Green House Gas Assessment in Crop Studies

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Carbon dioxide.- Chapter 3: Methane.- Chapter 4: Nitrous Oxide.- Chapter 5: Ozone.- Chapter 6: Temperature.- Chapter 7: The Plant Water Status.- Chapter 8: Summary.

Dr.Dinesh Chandra Uprety is an Emeritus Scientist at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and has 43 years research and teaching experience. He has led the South Asian and Indian program on CO2 enrichment research and technology. He has designed and developed Open Top Chamber (OTC), FACE and FATE climate change research technologies for the South Asian region, bringing India in to GCTE research network. He was a member of the IPCC working group II. He has published about 150 research papers, 4 books and 5 chapters in edited books relating to climate change and agriculture. He is Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc); Fellow, START International, USA; Indian Soc. Plant Physiology (FISPP); and received the Gold medal of Acad. Advanc. Agric.Sci.India (AAAS); Sukumar Basu Award in 2004; Eminent Citizen MNERGA 2010; B.N.Singh Memorial Award BHU Centenary Award 2016 and Life Time Achievement Award 2020, by the Society for science of climate change and sustainable environment, New Delhi.


Dr. Pallavi Saxena is an Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Hindu College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. She has been awarded DST Fast Track Young Scientist Award at SES, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has completed her Post Doc from SPASC, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, India. She has awarded Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Studies from University of Delhi on "Effect of Photochemical Pollutants on Plant Species". Her area of interest is air pollution and plant physiology. She is elected as Chair of South Asia and Middleeast Region of ECR, iLEAPS, UK. She is also a co-author and collaborator from India in TOAR from 2015 onwards.