Crop Adaptation To Climate Change

The overall premise of this comprehensive look at crop adaptation to climate change is yes, climate change will have a negative impact on crop production in most of the world's agricultural areas in the years to come. The first two sections of the book deal with climate stress factors, evaluating climate change by region, and physiological responses of crops to those changes. The third section addresses specific crops and how research is working to enhance their ability to adapt to change. The extensive coverage of the topic should interest a variety of industry professionals and consultants as well as academics involved in crop and food science, agronomy, molecular biology, plant physiology, breeding, and climate. While certainly written for a professional audience, the book exhibits straightforward and clear writing. Editors Yadav (Ministry of Agriculture, Afghanistan), Redden (Australian Temperate Field Crops Collection), Hatfield (National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment), Lotze-Campen (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact, Germany), Hall (botany and plant sciences, U. of California), and 108 co-authors contributed. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Shyam S. Yadav is International Advisor in Agriculture at Civilian Technical Assistance Program, General Directorate of Programs, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock, Kabul, Afghanistan

Robert Redden is a Curator of genetic resources at the Australian Temperate and Field Crops Collection (ATFCC), Department of Primary Industries, Australia

Jerry L. Hatfield is Laboratory Director and Supervisory Plant Physiologist at the USDA-Agriculture Research Service, United States of America

Hermann Lotze-Campen is a Group Leader in Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany

Anthony Hall is Emeritus Professor of Plant Physiology at the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, California, United States of America

List of Chapters

1.1 Climate Change, Population Growth and Crop Production: An Overview by Hermann Lotze-Campen

1.2 Modelling Regional Effects of Climate Change on Wheat Crop Production in Victoria, Australia by Garry O'Leary, Brendan Christy, Anna Weeks, James Nuttall, Penny Riffkin, Craig Beverly and Glenn Fitzgerald

2. Agroecology: Implications for Plant Response to Climate Change by Jerry L. Hatfield and John H. Prueger

3.1 Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Production in Latin America by Andy Jarvis, Julian Ramirez, Osana Bonilla-Findji, Emmanuel Zapata

3.2 Changing Climate in North America: Implications for Crops by Jerry L. Hatfield

3.3 Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Africa by Ranjana Bhattacharjee, Bonny R Ntare, Emmanuel Otoo, and Pius Z. Yanda

3.4 Regional Impacts: Europe by Hermann Lotze-Campen

3.5 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union by Andrei Kirilenko and Nikolay Dronin

3.6 Climate Change Impact in Agriculture: Vulnerability and Adaptation Concerns of Semi Arid Tropics in Asia by Naveen P Singh, MCS Bantilan and A Ashok Kumar, P Janila and Abu Wali Raghib Hassan

3.7 Climate Change Impacts in Japan and Southeast Asia: Implications for Crop Adaptation by S.V.R.K. Prabhakar

3.8 Regional Impacts: Australia by S.M. Howden and S.J. Crimp

4. Synthesis of Regional Impacts and Global Agricultural Adjustments by Neil C. Turner and Rolf Meyer

5.1 Impacts of High-Temperature Stress and Potential Opportunities for Breeding by R.P. Singh, P.V.V. Prasad, A.K. Sharma, K.R. Reddy

5.2 Whole Plant Response to Drought under Climate Change by Vincent Vadez, Jana Kholova, Sunita Choudhary, Paul Zindy, Médulline Terrier, L Krishnamurthy, P Ratna Kumar, Neil C. Turner

6. Plant Responses to Increased Carbon Dioxide by S. Seneweera and R.M. Norton

7. Genetics Options for Improving the Productivity of Wheat in Water-Limited and Temperature Stressed Environments by R M Trethowan and T Mahmood

8. Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Pea by Clarice J. Coyne, Rebecca J. McGee, Robert J. Redden, Mike J. Ambrose, Bonnie J. Furman, Carol A. Miles

9. Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Chickpea by M. Imtiaz, R.S. Malhotra, and Shyam. S. Yadav

10. Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Vicia faba by Gérard Duc, Wolfgang Link, Pascal Marget, F.L. Stoddard, Ana MariaTorres, J.I. Cubero

11. Adaptation of the Potato Crop to Changing Climates by Roland Schafleitner, Julian Ramirez, Andy Jarvis, Daniele Evers, Raymundo Gutierrez and Mariah Scurrah

12. Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: RICE by T. Lafarge, S.Peng, T. Hasegawa,W.P. Quick, S.V.K. Jagadish, R. Wassmann

13. Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: MAIZE by Mark E. Westgate and Jerry L. Hatfield

14. Sorghum Genetic Enhancement for Climate Change Adaptation by Belum V. S. Reddy, A Ashok Kumar, S. Ramesh1 and P. Sanjana Reddy

15. Breeding Cowpea for Future Climates by Anthony E. Hall

16. Genetic Improvement of Common beans and the Challenges of Climate Change by S. Beebe, J. Ramirez, A. Jarvis, I.M. Rao, G. Mosquera, J.M. Bueno, M.W. Blair

17. Improving Soybean Cultivars for Adaptation to Climate Change and Climate Variability by Boote, K.J.

18. Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Vegetables by de la Peña R.C., Ebert A.W., Gniffke P., Hanson P. & Symonds R.C.

19. Adaptation of Cassava to Changing Climates by Hernán Ceballos, Julian Ramirez, Anthony C. Bellotti, Andy Jarvis, and E. Alvarez

20. Changing Climates: Effects on Growing Conditions for Banana and Plantain (Musa spp.) and Possible Responses by Julián Ramírez, Andy Jarvis, Inge Van den Bergh, Charles Staver and David Turner

21. Genetic Adjustment to Changing Climates: Sugarcane by Geoff Inman-Bamber, Phillip Jackson and Maryse Bourgault

22. Breeding Oilseed Brassica for Climate Change by P.A. Salisbury and M.J. Barbetti

23. The Genetic Envelope of Wine Grapevines: Potential for Adaptation to Future Climate Challenges by Leanne B. Webb, Peter R. Clingeleffer and Stephen D. Tyerman

24. The Potential of Climate Change Adjustment in crops: A Synthesis by Redden R, Shyam S. Yadav, Surinder Vasal, Boddupalli M. Prasanna, Jerry L. Hatfield

25. Crop Germplasm Diversity - the Role of Gene Bank Collections in Facilitating Adaptation to Climate Change by Laura K. Snook, M. Ehsan Dulloo, Andy Jarvis, Xavier Scheldeman, Margaret Kneller

26. Underutilized species and Climate Change - Current Status and Outlook by Padulosi S., V. Heywood, D. Hunter and A. Jarvis

27. Wild Relative and Transgenic Innovation for Enhancing Crop Adaptation to Warmer and Drier Climate by Gang-Ping Xue and C. Lynne McIntyre

28. Energy Crops to Combat Climate Change by Abdullah A. Jaradat

29. Research from the Past to the Future by EC (Ted) Wolfe