Climate Change and Crop Production

 
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ISBN13:9781786393081
ISBN10:1786393085
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:308 pages
Size:244x172x20 mm
Weight:794 g
Language:English
Illustrations: Now available in paperback! The first volume in the CABI Climate Change Series, this book provides an overview of the essential disciplines required for sustainable crop production in unpredictable environments.
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The first volume in the CABI Climate Change Series, this book provides an overview of the essential disciplines required for sustainable crop production in unpredictable environments.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Adapting crops to climate change: a summary, Matthew P. Reynolds and Rodomiro Ortiz
  • 2: Scenarios of climate change within the context of agriculture, Andy Jarvis, Julian Ramirez, Ben Anderson, Christoph Leibing and Pramod Aggarwal
  • 3: Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture to 2030, David Lobell & Marshall Burke
  • 4: Preventing potential disease and pest epidemics under a changing climate, Anne Legreve and Etienne Duveiller
  • 5: Breeding for adaptation to heat and drought stress, Matthew Reynolds, Dirk Hays and Scott Chapman
  • 6: Breeding crops for tolerance to salinity, waterlogging and inundation, Daniel Mullan and Ed Barrett-Lennard
  • 7: Multi-location testing as a tool to identify plant response to global climate change, Hans-Joachim Braun, Gary Atlin and Thomas Payne
  • 8: Genetic approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: increasing carbon capture and decreasing environmental impact, Martin A. J. Parry and Malcom J. Hawkesford
  • 9: Greenhouse gas mitigation in the main cereal systems: rice, wheat and maize, Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, Reiner Wassmann, Bram Govaerts, Yasukazu. Hosen, Nobuko Katayanagi and Nele Verhulst
  • 10: How conservation agriculture can contribute to buffering climate change, Peter Hobbs and Bram Govaerts
  • 11: Management of resident soil microbial community structure and function to suppress soilborne disease development, Mark Mazzola
  • 12: Biotechnology in agriculture, Ryan Whitford, Michael Gilbert and Peter Langridge
  • 13: GIS & crop simulation modelling applications in climate change research, David Hodson and Jeff White
  • 14: Statistical models for studying and understanding genotype x environment interaction in an era of climate change and increased genetic information, José Crossa, Juan Burgueno and Mateo Vargas