Tribute in the Memory of Manav Yadav vii
About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xv
Foreword by Prof. Geoffrey Hawtin xix
Foreword by Dr. R S Paroda xxi
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgments xxv
Chapter 1: Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture Production, Food, and Nutritional Security 1
Shyam S. Yadav, Danny Hunter, Bob Redden, Mahboob Nang, D. K. Yadava, and Abdul Basir Habibi
Chapter 2: Challenge for Future Agriculture 24
Jerry L. Hatfield and John H. Prueger
Chapter 3: Global Warming and Evolution of Wild Cereals 44
Eviatar Nevo and Robert Henry
Chapter 4: Wild Relatives for the Crop Improvement Challenges of Climate Change: The Adaptation Range of Crops 61
Robert Redden
Chapter 5: The Importance of Crop Wild Relatives, Diversity, and Genetic Potential for Adaptation to Abiotic Stress-Prone Environments 80
Rodomiro Ortiz
Chapter 6: Conservation Planning for Crop Wild Relative Diversity 88
Nigel Maxted, Alvina Avagyan, Lothar Frese, José Iriondo, Shelagh Kell, Joana Magos Brehm, Alon Singer, and Ehsan Dulloo
Chapter 7: Research on Conservation and Use of Crop Wild Relatives 108
Mohammad Ehsan Dulloo, Elena Fiorino, and Imke Thormann
Chapter 8: Research on Crop Wild Relatives in Major Food Crops 130
Enrico Porceddu and Ardeshir Damania
Chapter 9: Utilization of Wild Relatives in the Breeding of Tomato and Other Major Vegetables 141
Andreas W. Ebert and Roland Schafleitner
Chapter 10: Conservation Roles of the Millennium Seed Bank and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault 173
Ruth J. Eastwood, Sarah Cody, Ola T. Westengen, and Roland von Bothmer
Chapter 11: Seed Biology 187
Sarah E. Ashmore, Amelia Martyn, Karen Sommerville, Graeme Errington, and Catherine A. Offord
Chapter 12: Biotechnology and Genomics: Exploiting the Potential of CWR 212
Peter G. Walley and Jonathan D. Moore
Chapter 13: Unavailability of Wild Relatives 224
Eve Emshwiller, Germán Calberto-Sánchez, Gezahegn Girma, Shelley Jansky, Julie Sardos, Charles Staver, Frederick L. Stoddard, and Nicolas Roux
Chapter 14: Synthetic Engineered Genes, GMOs, and Hybridization with Wild Relatives 250
Nelli A. Hovhannisyan and Aleksandr H. Yesayan
Chapter 15: Using Genomic Approaches to Unlock the Potential of CWR for Crop Adaptation to Climate Change 268
Gregory J. Baute, Hannes Dempewolf, and Losren H. Rieseberg
Chapter 16: The Economics of Crop Wild Relatives under Climate Change 281
Nicholas Tyack and Hannes Dempewolf
Chapter 17: Potential of Minor Fruit Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) as New Crops in Breeding for Market Diversification 292
Vojt¡ech Holubec, Tamara Smekalova, František Paprštein, Lenka Što¡cková, and Vojte¡ch R¡ezníc¡ek
Chapter 18: The Australian Vigna Species: A Case Study in the Collection and Conservation of Crop Wild Relatives 318
R. J. Lawn
Chapter 19: Beyond Biodiversity: Ecosystem Services of Crop Wild Relatives 336
Abdullah A. Jaradat
Chapter 20: CWR and the Prebreeding in the Context of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture 350
Shakeel Bhatti, Mario Marino, Daniele Manzella, Jan Petter Borring, and Álvaro Toledo
Index 357
Crop Wild Relatives and Climate Change. ISBN 9781118854273. Published by Wiley Blackwell in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.