<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Different Omics Approaches in Cereals and Their Possible Implications for Developing a System Biology Approach to Study the Mechanism of Abiotic Stress Tolerance</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">P S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Reddy</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">N</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Sreenivasulu</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>Cereals comprise a number of crops including rice, wheat, maize, barley, rye and sorghum. In the form of starch and proteins, the cereal grains provide nearly 60 % of the calories consumed globally as food and fodder. There is a growing challenge to meet the global demand of food security for a human population of 9 billion expected by the year 2050.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Genetics and Genomics</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Food and Nutrition</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2013-05</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>Springer Netherlands</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Book Section</mods:genre></mods:mods>