This book explores the impact of climate change on agriculture and our future ability to produce the crops which are the foundation of the human diet. Specifically, individual chapters explore the potential for genomics assisted breeding of improved crops with greater yield and tolerance to the stresses associated with predicted climate change scenarios. Given the clear and unmet challenge to mitigate climate changing events, this book will be of wide interest from plant breeders and environmental scientists, government bodies through to a more general audience who are interested in the likely impact of climate change on agriculture.
Table of Content
Table of Contents
Plant Genomics and Climate Change
Editors: David Edwards, Jacqueline Batley
Ch. 1: The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Crops
Timothy Fitzgerald
Ch. 2: The Impacts of Extreme Climatic Events on Wild Plant Populations
Robert C. Godfree
Lyndsey M. Vivian
Jennifer C. Pierson
Ch. 3: Control of Arable Crop Pathogens; Climate Change Mitigation, Impacts and Adaptation
Bruce D. L. Fitt
David J. Hughes
Henrik U. Stotz
Ch. 4: Transcriptomics and Genetics Associated with Plant Responses to Elevated Co2 Atmospheric Concentrations
Amanda P. De Souza
Bruna C. Arenque
Eveline Q. P. Tavares
Marcos S. Buckeridge
Ch. 5: Genomics of Drought
Tiago Lourenço
Pedro M. Barros
Nelson J.M. Saibo
Isabel A. Abreu
Ana Paula Santos
Carla António
João S. Pereira
M. Margarida Oliveira
Ch. 6: Genomics of Temperature Stress
Paula Andrea Martinez
Ch. 7: Genes, meet Gases: The Role of Plant Nutrition and Genomics in Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Jennifer MingSuet Ng
Mei Han
Perrin H. Beatty
Allen Good
Ch. 8: The Impact of Genomics Technology on Adapting Plants to Climate Change
David Edwards<
Ch. 9: Genomics of Salinity
Philipp Emanuel Bayer
About the author
Prof David Edwards gained an Honours degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Nottingham and a Ph D from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge. He has held positions within academia (University of Adelaide and University of Queensland, Australia; University of Cambridge, UK; and Mc Gill University, Canada), government (Long Ashton Research Centre, UK, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria, Australia) and industry (ICI seeds, UK). David was appointed as a Centenary Professor at The University of Western Australia in 2015. His research interests include the structure and expression of plant genomes, the discovery and application of genome variation and applied bioinformatics, with a focus on crop plants and accelerating crop improvement in the face of climate change.
Prof Jacqueline Batley is an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She was awarded her Ph D from the University of Bristol in 2001 and moved to Australia in 2002. Jacqueline has expertise in the fi elds of plant and animal molecular biology, genetics and genomics, gained from working in both industry and academia. Her areas of interest include genetic and genomic analysis for applications including genetic diversity, linkage disequilibrium and comparative genomic studies, working across environmental and agricultural areas. Her current research projects include the molecular characterisation of agronomic traits, with a focus on disease resistance in Brassicas, with studies in both the fungal pathogen and the host plant.
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