Climate change and crop production /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Reynolds, Matthew P. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
Series:	CABI climate change series ; 1.
Subjects:	Crops and climate. Sustainable agriculture. Environmental Tolerance of Plants. Meteorology and Climate. Plant Breeding and Genetics. Plant Cropping Systems. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. Plant Production. Techniques and Methodology. Adaptation. Climatic change. Crop production. Crops. Environmental impact. Genetic improvement. Greenhouse gases. Plant breeding. Prediction. Stress response. Stress. Sustainability. Techniques. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Adapting crops to climate change : a summary / Matthew P. Reynolds and Rodomiro Ortiz
Scenarios of climate change within the context of agriculture / Andy Jarvis, Julian Ramirez, Ben Anderson, Christoph Leibning and Pramod Aggarwal
Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture to 2030 / David Lobell and Marshall Burke
Preventing potential disease and pest epidemics under a changing climate / Anne Legréve and Etieen Duveiller
Breeding for adaptation to heat and drought stress / Matthew P. Reynolds, Dirk Hays and Scott Chapman
Breeding crops for tolerance to salinity, waterlogging and inundation / Daniel J. Mullan and Edward G. Barrett-Lennard
Multi-location testing as a tool to identify plant response to global climate change / Hans-Joachim Braun, Gary Atlin and Thomas Payne
Genetic approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions : increasing carbon capture and decreasing environmental impact / Martin A.J. Parry and Malcom J. Hawkesford
Greenhouse gas mitigation in the main cereal systems : rice, wheat and maize / Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, Reiner Wassmann, Bram Govaerts, Yasukazu Hosen, Nobuko Katayanagi and Nele Verhulst
How conservation agriculture can contribute to buffering climate change / Peter R. Hobbs and Bram Govaerts
Management of resident soil microbial community structure and function to suppress soilborne disease development / Mark Mazzola
Biotechnology in agriculture / Ryan Whiford, Michael Gilbert and Peter Langridge
GIS and crop simulation modelling applications in climate change research / David Hodson and Jeffrey White
Statistical models for studying and understanding genotype x environment interaction in an era of climate change and increased genetic information / José Crossa, Juan Burgueño and Mateo Vargas.