Description
This book explores the impact of climate change on agriculture and our future ability to produce the crops which are the foundation of the human diet. Specifically, individual chapters explore the potential for genomics assisted breeding of improved crops with greater yield and tolerance to the stresses associated with predicted climate change scenarios. Given the clear and unmet challenge to mitigate climate changing events, this book will be of wide interest from plant breeders and environmental scientists, government bodies through to a more general audience who are interested in the likely impact of climate change on agriculture.
Table of Contents
The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Crops.- The Impacts of Extreme Climatic Events on Wild Plant Populations.- Control of Arable Crop Pathogens; Climate Change Mitigation, Impacts and Adaptation.- Transcriptomics and Genetics Associated with Plant Responses to Elevated Co2 Atmospheric Concentrations.- Genomics of Drought.- Genomics of Temperature Stress.- Genes, meet Gases: The Role of Plant Nutrition and Genomics in Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions.- The Impact of Genomics Technology on Adapting Plants to Climate Change.- Genomics of Salinity.
