Crop stress management and global climate change /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2011.
• Series: CABI climate change series ; 2.
• Subjects: Crops and climate.; Climatic changes.; Information and Documentation.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Plant Physiology and Biochemistry.; Plant Water Relations.; Plant Production.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Environmental Tolerance of Plants.; Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.; Soil Physics.; Soil Fertility.; Meteorology and Climate.; Natural Disasters.; Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Oryza.; Oryza sativa.; Adaptability.; Adaptation.; Agriculture.; Air temperature.; Arid zones.; Carbon dioxide.; Climatic change.; Crop management.; Crops.; Drought.; Drought resistance.; Farming systems.; Genetic improvement.; Genetic markers.; Global warming.; Heat resistance.; Heat stress.; Heat tolerance.; Horticultural crops.; Horticulture.; Information technology.; Mediterranean climate.; Phenotypes.; Plant water relations.; Precipitation.; Prediction.; Rice.; Soil fertility.; Soil temperature.; Stress.; Stress response.; Water stress.; Water use efficiency.; Electronic books.
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The second in a three-part series on climatic change, this book addresses the challenges of the foreseen climate change for agriculture from a multidisciplinary point of view. The initial chapter discusses the global changes that gave rise to the beginning of agriculture. The rest of the book is sub...

Table of Contents:

• Global change and the origins of agriculture / J.P. Ferrio, J. Voltas and J.L. Araus
• Climate change in drylands : from assessment methods to adaptation strategies / E. De Pauw and W. Göbel
• Agronomic avenues to maximize the benefits of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration in the Asian irrigated rice systems / L. Yang and S. Peng
• Recent changes in Pampean agriculture : possible new avenues in coping with global change challenges / E.H. Satorre
• Global change challenges for horticultural systems / C. Ramos, D.S. Intrigliolo and R.B. Thompson
• The impact of high CO2 on plant abiotic stress tolerance / M.S. Lopes and C.H. Foyer
• Breeding to improve grain yield in water-limited environments : the CSIRO experience with wheat / R.A. Richards, G.J. Rebetzke, A.G. (Tony) Condon and M. Watt
• Molecular breeding for a changing climate : bridging ecophysiology and molecular biology / R. Tuberosa, M. Maccaferri, C. Colalongo and S. Salvi
• Crop management to cope with global change : a systems perspective aided by information technologies / G.S. McMaster and J.C. Ascough II
• The way ahead : from science to policy : coordinating efforts in a global world / R. Ortiz.