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Crop Adaptation to Climate Change
Shyam Singh Yadav (Author), Robert J. Redden (Author), Jerry L. Hatfield (Author), Hermann Lotze-Campen (Author), Anthony E. Hall (Author)
9780813820163, Wiley
Hardback, published 7 October 2011
632 pages
25.5 x 19.6 x 3.7 cm, 1.669 kg
“This work can serve as a teaching guide for graduate students to stimulate research and to understand crop adaptation strategies in a change climate. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals.” (Choice, 1 September 2012)
A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, and as the population continues to grow. Current projections suggest that the world's temperatures will rise 1.8-4.0 by 2100 and population may reach 8 billion by the year 2025 and some 9 billion by mid-century, after which it may stabilize. This book addresses these critical issues by presenting the science needed not only to understand climate change effects on crops but also to adapt current agricultural systems, particularly in regard to genetics, to the changing conditions. Crop Adaptation to Climate Change covers a spectrum of issues related to both crops and climatic conditions. The first two sections provide a foundation on the factors involved in climate stress, assessing current climate change by region and covering crop physiological responses to these changes. The third and final section contains chapters focused on specific crops and the current research to improve their genetic adaptation to climate change. Written by an international team of authors, Crop Adaptation to Climate Change is a timely look at the potentially serious consequences of climate change for our global food supply, and is an essential resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of crop science, agronomy, plant physiology and molecular biology; crop consultants and breeders; as well as climate and food scientists.
List of Contributors ix List of Editors xvi About the Editors xvii Foreword by Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig xx Foreword by M.S. Swaminathan xxii Foreword by Martin Parry xxiv Foreword by Ahmed Djoghlaf xxv Foreword by Cary Fowler xxvii Foreword by David K. Skelly xxix Foreword by Walter P. Falcon xxx Preface xxxii Acknowledgments xxxiii Chapter 1.1: Climate Change, Population Growth, and Crop Production: An Overview 1 Chapter 1.2: Downscaling Global Climatic Predictions to the Regional Level: A Case Study of Regional Effects of Climate Change on Wheat Crop Production in Victoria, Australia 12 Chapter 2: Agroecology: Implications for Plant Response to Climate Change 27 Chapter 3.1: Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Production in Latin America 44 Chapter 3.2: Changing Climate in North America: Implications for Crops 57 Chapter 3.3: Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Africa 66 Chapter 3.4: Regional Climate Impacts on Agriculture in Europe 78 Chapter 3.5: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union 84 Chapter 3.6: Climate Change Impact in Agriculture: Vulnerability and Adaptation Concerns of Semiarid Tropics in Asia 107 Chapter 3.7: Climate Change Impacts in Japan and Southeast Asia: Implications for Crop Adaptation 131 Chapter 3.8: Regional Impacts: Australia 143 Chapter 4: Synthesis of Regional Impacts and Global Agricultural Adjustments 156 Chapter 5.1: Impacts of High-Temperature Stress and Potential Opportunities for Breeding 166 Chapter 5.2: Responses to Increased Moisture Stress and Extremes: Whole Plant Response to Drought under Climate Change 186 Chapter 6: Plant Responses to Increased Carbon Dioxide 198 Chapter 7: Genetics Options for Improving the Productivity of Wheat in Water-Limited and Temperature-Stressed Environments 218 Chapter 8: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Pea 238 Chapter 9: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Chickpea 251 Chapter 10: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: faba bean 269 Chapter 11: Adaptation of the Potato Crop to Changing Climates 287 Chapter 12: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Rice 298 Chapter 13: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Maize 314 Chapter 14: Sorghum Genetic Enhancement for Climate Change Adaptation 326 Chapter 15: Breeding Cowpea for Future Climates 340 Chapter 16: Genetic Improvement of Common Beans and the Challenges of Climate Change 356 Chapter 17: Improving Soybean Cultivars for Adaptation to Climate Change and Climate Variability 370 Chapter 18: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Vegetables 396 Chapter 19: Adaptation of Cassava to Changing Climates 411 Chapter 20: Changing Climates: Effects on Growing Conditions for Banana and Plantain (Musa spp.) and Possible Responses 426 Chapter 21: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Sugarcane 439 Chapter 22: Breeding Oilseed Brassica for Climate Change 448 Chapter 23: The Genetic Envelope of Winegrape Vines: Potential for Adaptation to Future Climate Challenges 464 Chapter 24: The Potential of Climate Change Adjustment in Crops: A Synthesis 482 Chapter 25: Crop Germplasm Diversity: The Role of Gene Bank Collections in Facilitating Adaptation to Climate Change 495 Chapter 26: Underutilized Species and Climate Change: Current Status and Outlook 507 Chapter 27: Wild Relative and Transgenic Innovation for Enhancing Crop Adaptation to Warmer and Drier Climate 522 Chapter 28: Energy Crops to Combat Climate Change 546 Chapter 29: Research from the Past to the Future 556 Index 571
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