Plant genetic resources and climate change /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Series: CABI climate change series ; 4.
• Subjects: Crops > Germplasm resources.; Food crops > Germplasm resources.; Crops and climate.; Germplasm resources, Plant.; Climatic changes.; Food Economics, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Meteorology and Climate.; Biological Resources (Plant); Plant Ecology.; Climate change.; Food security.; Plant genetic resources.; Population dynamics.
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This new book Plant Genetic Resources and Climate Change contains 11 chapters summarizing perspectives on climatic change and how it might affect plant populations, and the expected impact on agriculture around the world. It presents some of the latest perspectives about how genetic resources can co...

Table of Contents:

• Food security, climate change and genetic resources / Robert S. Zeigler
• Genetic resources and conservation challenges under the threat of climate change / Brian Ford-Lloyd, Johannes M.M. Engels and Michael Jackson
• Climate projections / Richard A. Betts and Ed Hawkins
• Effects of climate change on potential food production and risk of hunger / Martin Parry
• Regional impacts of climate change on agriculture and the role of adaptation / Pam Berry, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Helen Bramley, Mary A. Mgonja and Samarendu Mohanty
• International mechanisms for conservation and use of genetic resources / Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Hawtin
• Crop wild relatives and climate change / Nigel Maxted, Shelagh Kell and Joana Magos Brehm
• Climate change and on-farm conservation of crop landraces in centres of diversity / Mauricio R. Bellon and Jacob van Etten
• Germplasm databases and informatics / Helen Ougham and Ian D. Thomas
• Exploring "omics" of genetic resources to mitigate the effects of climate change / Kenneth L. McNally
• Harnessing meiotic recombination for improved crop varieties / Susan J. Armstrong
• High temperature stress / Maduraimuthu Djanaguiraman and P.V. Vara Prasad
• Drought / Salvatore Ceccarelli
• Salinity / William Erskine, Hari D. Upadhyaya and Al Imran Malik
• Response to flooding : submergence tolerance in rice / Abdelbagi M. Ismail and David J. Mackill
• Effects of climate change on plant-insect interactions and prospects for resistance breeding using genetic resources / Jeremy Pritchard, Colette Broekgaarden and Ben Vosman.