Crop wild relatives and climate change /

• Other Authors: Redden, Robert John, 1943- (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
• Subjects: Native plants for cultivation.; Crops > Germplasm resources.; Wild plants, Edible.; Crop science.; Crops and climate.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General; Electronic books.

Two major challenges to continued global food security are the ever increasing demand for food products, and the unprecedented abiotic stresses that crops face due to climate change.Wild relatives of domesticated crops serve as a reservoir of genetic material, with the potential to be used to develo...