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Plant genetic resources and climate change / edited by Michael Jackson, Formerly International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the Philippines, Brian Ford-Lloyd, University of Birmingham, UK, and Martin Parry, Imperial College London, UK.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CABI climate change series ; 4.Publisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 291 pages, 16 pages of colored plates) : illustrations, charts, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Plant genetic resources and climate change.DDC classification:
  • 571.8/2 23
LOC classification:
  • SB123.3 .P6315 2014eb
Online resources: Also available in print format.
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.
Abstract: 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 contribute to achieving food security under the challenge of a changing climate. It aims to highlight some key issues for plant genetic resources management, to demonstrate how perspectives have changed over two decades, and discuss some of the actual responses and developments.
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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 contribute to achieving food security under the challenge of a changing climate. It aims to highlight some key issues for plant genetic resources management, to demonstrate how perspectives have changed over two decades, and discuss some of the actual responses and developments.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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