Climate Change and Crop Production
Series:
CABI Climate Change Series;
12;
Publisher: CAB International
Date of Publication: 26 May 2017
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Product details:
| 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. |
| 1250 |
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Short description:
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.
Long description:
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
