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Book SynopsisA major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment.
Trade Review“This work can serve as a teaching guide for graduate students to stimulate research and to understand crop adaptation strategies in a change climate. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals.” (Choice, 1 September 2012)
Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix
List of Editors xvi
About the Editors xvii
Foreword by Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig xx
Foreword by M.S. Swaminathan xxii
Foreword by Martin Parry xxiv
Foreword by Ahmed Djoghlaf xxv
Foreword by Cary Fowler xxvii
Foreword by David K. Skelly xxix
Foreword by Walter P. Falcon xxx
Preface xxxii
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Chapter 1.1: Climate Change, Population Growth, and Crop Production: An Overview 1
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Chapter 1.2: Downscaling Global Climatic Predictions to the Regional Level: A Case Study of Regional Effects of Climate Change on Wheat Crop Production in Victoria, Australia 12
Garry O’Leary, Brendan Christy, Anna Weeks, James Nuttall, Penny Riffkin, Craig Beverly, and Glenn Fitzgerald
Chapter 2: Agroecology: Implications for Plant Response to Climate Change 27
Jerry L. Hatfield and John H. Prueger
Chapter 3.1: Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Production in Latin America 44
Andy Jarvis, Julian Ramirez, Osana Bonilla-Findji, and Emmanuel Zapata
Chapter 3.2: Changing Climate in North America: Implications for Crops 57
Jerry L. Hatfield
Chapter 3.3: Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Africa 66
Ranjana Bhattacharjee, Bonny R. Ntare, Emmanuel Otoo, and Pius Z. Yanda
Chapter 3.4: Regional Climate Impacts on Agriculture in Europe 78
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Chapter 3.5: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union 84
Andrei Kirilenko and Nikolay Dronin
Chapter 3.6: Climate Change Impact in Agriculture: Vulnerability and Adaptation Concerns of Semiarid Tropics in Asia 107
Naveen P. Singh, Ma Cynthia S. Bantilan, A. Ashok Kumar, Pasupuleti Janila, and Abu Wali R. Hassan
Chapter 3.7: Climate Change Impacts in Japan and Southeast Asia: Implications for Crop Adaptation 131
Sivapuram V.R.K. Prabhakar
Chapter 3.8: Regional Impacts: Australia 143
Mark S. Howden and Steven J. Crimp
Chapter 4: Synthesis of Regional Impacts and Global Agricultural Adjustments 156
Neil C. Turner and Rolf Meyer
Chapter 5.1: Impacts of High-Temperature Stress and Potential Opportunities for Breeding 166
Rishi P. Singh, P.V. Vara Prasad, Ambrish K. Sharma, and K. Raja Reddy
Chapter 5.2: Responses to Increased Moisture Stress and Extremes: Whole Plant Response to Drought under Climate Change 186
Vincent Vadez, Jana Kholova, Sunita Choudhary, Paul Zindy, Médulline Terrier, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Pasala Ratna Kumar, and Neil C. Turner
Chapter 6: Plant Responses to Increased Carbon Dioxide 198
S. Seneweera and R.M. Norton
Chapter 7: Genetics Options for Improving the Productivity of Wheat in Water-Limited and Temperature-Stressed Environments 218
R.M. Trethowan and T. Mahmood
Chapter 8: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Pea 238
Clarice J. Coyne, Rebecca J. McGee, Robert J. Redden, Mike J. Ambrose, Bonnie J. Furman, and Carol A. Miles
Chapter 9: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Chickpea 251
Muhammad Imtiaz, Rajinder S. Malhotra, and Shyam S. Yadav
Chapter 10: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: faba bean 269
Gérard Duc, Wolfgang Link, Pascal Marget, Robert J. Redden, Frederick L. Stoddard, Ana MariaTorres, and Jose I. Cubero
Chapter 11: Adaptation of the Potato Crop to Changing Climates 287
Roland Schafleitner, Julian Ramirez, Andy Jarvis, Daniele Evers, Raymundo Gutierrez, and Mariah Scurrah
Chapter 12: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Rice 298
Tanguy Lafarge, Shaobing Peng, Toshihiro Hasegawa, William P. Quick, S.V. Krishna Jagadish, and Reiner Wassmann
Chapter 13: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Maize 314
Mark E. Westgate and Jerry L. Hatfield
Chapter 14: Sorghum Genetic Enhancement for Climate Change Adaptation 326
Belum V.S. Reddy, A. Ashok Kumar, Sampangiramireddy Ramesh, and Pulluru S. Reddy
Chapter 15: Breeding Cowpea for Future Climates 340
Anthony E. Hall
Chapter 16: Genetic Improvement of Common Beans and the Challenges of Climate Change 356
Stephen Beebe, Julian Ramirez, Andy Jarvis, Idupulapati M. Rao, Gloria Mosquera, Juan M. Bueno, and Matthew W. Blair
Chapter 17: Improving Soybean Cultivars for Adaptation to Climate Change and Climate Variability 370
Kenneth J. Boote
Chapter 18: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Vegetables 396
Robert C. de la Peña, Andreas W. Ebert, Paul A. Gniffke, Peter Hanson, and Rachael C. Symonds
Chapter 19: Adaptation of Cassava to Changing Climates 411
Hernán Ceballos, Julian Ramirez, Anthony C. Bellotti, Andy Jarvis, and Elizabeth Alvarez
Chapter 20: Changing Climates: Effects on Growing Conditions for Banana and Plantain (Musa spp.) and Possible Responses 426
Julian Ramirez, Andy Jarvis, Inge Van den Bergh, Charles Staver, and David Turner
Chapter 21: Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Sugarcane 439
Geoff Inman-Bamber, Phillip Jackson, and Maryse Bourgault
Chapter 22: Breeding Oilseed Brassica for Climate Change 448
Phillip A. Salisbury and Martin J. Barbetti
Chapter 23: The Genetic Envelope of Winegrape Vines: Potential for Adaptation to Future Climate Challenges 464
Leanne B. Webb, Peter R. Clingeleffer, and Stephen D. Tyerman
Chapter 24: The Potential of Climate Change Adjustment in Crops: A Synthesis 482
Robert J. Redden, Shyam S. Yadav, Jerry L. Hatfield, Boddupalli M. Prasanna, Surinder K. Vasal, and Tanguy Lafarge
Chapter 25: Crop Germplasm Diversity: The Role of Gene Bank Collections in Facilitating Adaptation to Climate Change 495
Laura K. Snook, M. Ehsan Dulloo, Andy Jarvis, Xavier Scheldeman, and Margaret Kneller
Chapter 26: Underutilized Species and Climate Change: Current Status and Outlook 507
Stefano Padulosi, Vernon Heywood, Danny Hunter, and Andy Jarvis
Chapter 27: Wild Relative and Transgenic Innovation for Enhancing Crop Adaptation to Warmer and Drier Climate 522
Gang-Ping Xue and C. Lynne McIntyre
Chapter 28: Energy Crops to Combat Climate Change 546
Abdullah A. Jaradat
Chapter 29: Research from the Past to the Future 556
EC (Ted) Wolfe
Index 571
