Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change: A Global Initiative to Collect, Conserve, and Use Crop Wild Relatives

2014/02/18 by Hannes Dempewolf, Ruth J. Eastwood, Luigi Guarino +3 · 2 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Seed and Plant Biochemistry #Agricultural pest management studies #Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/21683565.2013.870629

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Abstract

The main objective of the“Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change” project is to collect and protect the genetic diversity of a portfolio of plants with the characteristics required for adapting the world's most important food crops to climate change. The initiative also aims to make available this diversity in a form that plant breeders can readily use to produce varieties adapted to the new climatic conditions that farmers, particularly in the developing world, are already encountering. Such adaptation is a key component of securing the world's future food production. This paper serves to inform interested researchers of this important initiative and encourage collaboration under its umbrella.

Citations

• The use of wild relatives in crop improvement: a survey of developments over the last 20 years
• Climate Change Effects on Plant Disease: Genomes to Ecosystems

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