Climate Change and Crop Production: Foundations for Agroecosystem Resilience (Advances in Agroecology)

Introduction: Set the stage / Noureddine Benkeblia, Rachel E. Schattman, Sarah Wiener, and Gabrielle Roesch-McNally -- Crop species responses and adaptation to rise in carbon dioxide and temperature / Noureddine Benkeblia and Charles A. Francis -- Physiological and morphological mechanisms mediating plant tolerance to osmotic stress: balancing tolerance and productivity / Md. Hasanuzzaman, Meixue Zhou and Sergey Shabala -- Physiological mechanisms of crops mediating defense response under elevated CO2 / Xin Li and Kai Shi -- Wild relative species and genetic engineering: improving crops in response to climate change / Noureddine Benkeblia -- Tropical crops and resilience to climate change / Noureddine Benkeblia, Melinda McHenry, Jake Crisp, and Philippe Roudier -- Climate change and resilience of agrosystems: mitigation through agroforestry, permaculture, and perennial polyculture systems / Noureddine Benkeblia and Donka Radeva -- Dynamics of crop production in a heterogeneous landscape: what are the opportunities for enhancing communal farmers' resilience to climate change impacts? / Munyaradzi Chitakira and Luxon Nhamo -- The pulse of pulses under climate change: from physiology to phenology / Archana Joshi-Saha and Kandali S. Reddy -- Diversifying agriculture with novel crop introductions to abandoned lands with suboptimal conditions / Sarah C. Davis, Jacqueline Kloepfer, Jesse A. Mayer and John C. Cushman -- Agroecology education to sustain resilient food production / Charles A. Francis, Tor Arvid Breland, Geir Hofgaard Lieblein, Anna Marie Nicolaysen

• | Author: Noureddine Benkeblia
• | Publisher: CRC Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 27, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 192 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138032344
• | ISBN-13: 9781138032347