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Breeding Cultivars for Heat Stress Tolerance in Staple Food Crops

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10935/
 
Title Breeding Cultivars for Heat Stress Tolerance in Staple
Food Crops
 
Creator Govindaraj, M
Pattanashetti, S K
Patne, N
Kanatti, A
 
Subject Abiotic Stress
Drought Tolerance
Food Production
Plant Breeding
 
Description Food and nutritional security will be worsened by climate change-induced high temperatures,
droughts and reduced water availability in most agricultural food crops environments,
particularly in developing countries. Recent evidences indicate that countries
in the southern hemisphere are more vulnerable to food production due to greater frequency
of extreme weather events. These challenges can be addressed by: (i) adoption of
climate mitigation tools in agricultural and urban activities; (ii) development of heat and
drought tolerant cultivars in major food crops; (iii) bringing back forgoten native minor
food crops such as millets and root crops; and (iv) continued investment in agricultural
research and development with the strong government policy support on native crops
grown by small holder farmers. The native crops have inherent potential and traits to
cope with adverse climate during the course of its evolution process. Therefore, diversifying
the crops should be a prime framework of the climate-smart agriculture to meet
the global food and nutritional security for which policy-driven production changes
are highly required in developing countries. The adverse efects of climate change on
agricultural production need to be addressed by multidisciplinary team and approaches
through strong network of research consortium including private sectors and multinational
governments for global impact.
 
Publisher IntechOpen Limited
 
Contributor Ciftci, Y O
 
Date 2018-09
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10935/1/Chapter%20Breeding%20Cultivars%20for%20Heat%20Stress%20Tolerance%20in%20Staple%202018.pdf
Govindaraj, M and Pattanashetti, S K and Patne, N and Kanatti, A (2018) Breeding Cultivars for Heat Stress Tolerance in Staple Food Crops. In: Next Generation Plant Breeding. IntechOpen Limited, pp. 45-74. ISBN 978-1-78923-926-3