Plant genetic resources and climate change /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :
CABI,
2014.
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| Series: | CABI climate change series ;
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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.