Combating global warming : the role of crop wild relatives for food security /: the role of crop wild relatives for food security. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair.
• Authors: Nair, Kodoth Prabhakaran
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.5/2; Global warming; Climatic changes; Food security; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030230371; 3030230376
• Related ISBNs: 9783030230364
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 8, 2019)
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