Combating Global Warming The Role of Crop Wild Relatives for Food Security /
This book critically examines the environmental hazards posed by global warming with regard to future food security, which will depend on a combination of stresses, both biotic and abiotic, imposed by climate change; variability of weather within a growing season; and the development of cultivars th...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Springer Climate,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23037-1 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Wild cereal cultivation in Israel – Global warming: An Important Link
- Climate-Evolution: The Interrelationship
- The adaptation range of wild crop species to fluctuations in climate change
- Importance of Crop Wild Relatives
- Crop-wise comparison of domestic gene pool with wild relatives on Ecogeographic Diversity
- Relevance of wild relatives in other crops in plant breeding programs
- Conservation research and Crop Wild Relatives. How does climate change affect Crop Wild Relatives Use?
- The Threats to Crop Wild Relatives
- Gene Flow between cultivated plants and their wild relatives
- In situ conservation research in CWR
- Ex situ conservation research in CWR
- Utilizing CWRs in Major food crops to combat Global Warming
- The CWR of Minor Fruit Crops
- Ecosystem services of Crop Wild Relatives
- Predictive Characterization of CWRs
- CWR and Prebreeding in the context of the International Treaty of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA)
- Pre Breeding utilizing CWR
- Economics of CWR under climate change
- Conservation Economics of CWR
- The Millennium Seed Banks: Their Conservation Roles and Svalbard Global Seed Vault
- The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 1.