Crop Wild Relatives and Climate Change

Two major threats to continued global food security are increasing demand for agricultural products and the unprecedented stressors crops face due to climate change. Wild relatives of domesticated crops serve as a resevoir of genetic material that has the potential to be used to develop new, improved varities of crops. Crop Wild Relative and Climate Change integrates crop evolution, breeding technologies and biotechnologies, improved practices and sustainable approaches and explores the role wild relatives might play in increasing agricultural production.§Crop Wild Relative and Climate Change begins with overviews on the impacts of climate change on growing environments and the challenges that agricultural production face in coming years and decades. From there chapters explore crop evolution and the rich genetic resource that crop wild relative have the potential to be in developing new and hearty varieties of key crops. Breeding technologies and biotechnological advances that are being used to incorporate key genetic traits of wild relatives to crops are covered. There is also a valuable discussion on the importance of conserving genetic resources to ensure continued successful crop production.§A timley resource, Crop Wild Relative and Climate Change will be an invaluable resource for the crop science community for years to come.