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.