By A. R. Bentley, E. F. Jensen, I. J. Mackay (auth.), Chittaranjan Kole (eds.)
Climate switch is anticipated to have a drastic influence on agronomic stipulations together with temperature, precipitation, soil meals, and the occurrence of affliction pests, to call a number of. to stand this looming danger, major growth in constructing new breeding techniques has been revamped the previous few a long time.
The moment quantity of Genomics and Breeding for Climate-Resilient Crops describes a variety of genomic and breeding ways for the genetic development of the main goal features. subject matters lined contain: flowering time; root characteristics; chilly, warmth and drought tolerance; water use potency; flooding and submergence tolerance; affliction and bug resistance; nutrient use potency; nitrogen fixation; carbon sequestration; and greenhouse gasoline emissions.
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Manipulating phenology so critical growth stages do not coincide with periods of stress) (Ainsworth and Ort 2010; Reynolds et al. 2010). A major plant breeding challenge is catering for the range of environmental factors that interact with the expression of key adaptive traits such as flowering time. This is necessary in order to recognize gains at multiple locations across years. Within this context, a major target is to take advantage of the positive aspects of climate change while offsetting the negative impacts, with genetic combinations of traits that are robust to inter- and intra-seasonal variation in water and temperature and that perform not only in suboptimal conditions but remain responsive in favorable years (Reynolds et al.
225 Helen Bramley, Neil C. M. Siddique 7 Flooding and Submergence Tolerance . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Abdelbagi M. Ismail 8 Disease Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Harbans S. Bariana, Urmil K. Bansal, Daisy Basandrai, and Mumta Chhetri 9 Insect Resistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 Chandrakanth Emani and Wayne Hunter 10 Nutrient Use Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333 Glenn McDonald, William Bovill, Chunyuan Huang, and David Lightfoot xxxvii xxxviii Contents 11 Nitrogen Fixation and Assimilation .
2012). However, there is very little information available on the relationship between photoperiod and temperature in supraoptimal conditions (Craufurd and Wheeler 2009; Ainsworth and Ort 2010). Global warming should accelerate spring by warming the coldest days of late winter, resulting in longer growing seasons (Cleland et al. 2007). Rosenzweig et al. (2008) reported that increased temperature resulted in earlier flowering and spring arrival in natural plant communities, although late-flowering species were less affected by warming compared to early species.