Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops || Water Use Efficiency

✍ Scribed by Kole, Chittaranjan

• Book ID: 120606416
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 458 KB
• Edition: 2013
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3642370489
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37048-9_6

✦ Synopsis

Climate change is expected to have a drastic impact on agronomic conditions including temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and the incidence of disease pests, to name a few. To face this looming threat, significant progress in developing new breeding strategies has been made over the last few decades. The second volume of Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops describes various genomic and breeding approaches for the genetic improvement of the major target traits. Topics covered include: flowering time; root traits; cold, heat and drought tolerance; water use efficiency; flooding and submergence tolerance; disease and insect resistance; nutrient use efficiency; nitrogen fixation; carbon sequestration; and greenhouse gas emissions.