Sustainable Crop Productivity and Quality under Climate Change

Sustainable Crop Productivity and Quality under Climate Change explores the physiological, biochemical and molecular bases of the responses of major crop plants to a range of climate change scenarios, and the development of climate resilience crop varieties which leads to enhanced crop productivity and quality under stressful conditions. This focus on better utilization of natural resources to ensure food security through modern breeding is also a valuable resource for future plant stress related research. An excellent reference book for front-line researchers working on sustaining crop production under climate change.Understanding the impact of climate on crop quality and production is a key challenge of crop biology. As climate impact continues to be felt, in the face of the increasing global population, food demand and frequency of extreme weather events threaten food security. Predicted increases in climate variability necessitate crop varieties with intrinsic resilience to co-occurring abiotic stresses such as heat, drought and flooding in a future climate of elevated CO2. Sustainable Crop Productivity and Quality under Climate Change presents a much-needed mechanistic understanding of the interactions between multiple stress responses of plants is needed to identify and take advantage of acclimation traits in major crop species as a prerequisite for securing robust yields and good quality.An excellent reference book for plant scientists, advanced level students and front-line researchers working on plant/crop ecophysiology/stress physiology, as well as sustaining crop production under climate change. Includes physiological, biochemical and molecular response of major crop plants to climate change related stresses Informs breeding for developing climate resilient crop varieties Represents latest developments and advances from leading research