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Breeding Strategies to Adapt Crops to a Changing Climate

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Climate Change and Food Security

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Climate change is expected to reduce global crop productivity, although the impact will vary region to region. At many locations, particularly those at lower latitudes, the environment will become drier and hotter, which will reduce crop yields and potentially change the incidence of insect pests and diseases. These climatic changes are also expected to alter the nutritional properties and processing quality of crop products. This chapter describes breeding approaches that may be employed to mitigate the effects of increased heat and drought in the crop production environment.

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Trethowan, R.M., Turner, M.A., Chattha, T.M. (2010). Breeding Strategies to Adapt Crops to a Changing Climate. In: Lobell, D., Burke, M. (eds) Climate Change and Food Security. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2953-9_9

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