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.

Flowering time

Root Characters
Cold Tolerance
Breeding for Heat Tolerance in Annual Crops
Drought
Water Use Efficiency: Governed By an Interactive Network of Physical, Biochemical and Hydraulic Processes
Flooding and Submergence Tolerance in Rice
Application of Genomics to Breed Disease Resistant Crop Varieties
Insect Resistance
Nutrient Use Efficiency
Nitrogen Fixation and Assimilation
Carbon Sequestration
Plant Breeding Approaches to Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions.