Climate Change and Food Security with Emphasis on Wheat is the first book to present the full scope of research in wheat improvement, revealing the correlations to global issues including climate change and global warming which contribute to food security issues. Wheat plays a key role in the health of the global economy. As the world population continuously increases, economies modernize, and incomes rise, wheat production will have to increase dramatically to secure it as a reliable and sustainable food source. Since covering more land area with wheat crops is not a sustainable option, future wheat crops must have consistently higher yields and be able to resist and/or tolerate biotic and abiotic stresses that result from climate change.
Addressing the biophysical and socioeconomic constraints of producing high-yielding, disease-resistant, and good quality wheat, this book will aid in research efforts to increase and stabilize wheat production worldwide.
Written by an international team of experts, Climate Change and Food Security with Emphasis on Wheat is an excellent resource for academics, researchers, and students interested in wheat and grain research, especially as it is relevant to food security.
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Table of Contents
1. Better Farming Practices to Combating Climate Change 2. Ensuring Sustainable Food Security: Exploiting alien genetic diversity in wheat breeding for adaptation to emerging Stresses 3. Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Wheat Production in Turkey and Various Adaptation Strategies 4. Cellular Mechanism of Salinity Tolerance in Wheat 5. Genes Controlling Salinity Tolerance in Wheat 6. Role of Osmoprotectants in Salinity Tolerance in Wheat 7. Salt Responsive Transcription Factors in Wheat 8. Molecular Mechanism of Drought Tolerance in Wheat 9. Cellular Mechanism of Drought Tolerance in Wheat 10. Drought Responsive ESTs in Wheat 11. Role of Transcription Factors in Drought Mediating Pathways in Wheat 12. LEA Proteins and Drought Stress in Wheat 13. Role of Osmoprotectants in Drought Tolerace in Wheat 14. Role of Spot Blotch Resistance in Global Food Security 15. Karnal Bunt (Tilletia Indica) in Wheat 16. Wheat-Thinopyrum Intermedium Introgression Lines Enhancing Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (WSMV) Resistance 17. Climate Chnage Leading to Post Harvest Losses in Breadwheat 18. Investigation of the Effects of Environmental Stresses on the Development and Yield of Wheat Seedlings with Physiological, Biochemical Parameters and Some Gene Expressions 19. Potentially Toxic Trace Elements in Wheat and their Effects on the Plant Development and Essential Nutrients 20. Transfer of the Wheat Heritage of Antolia to Future Generations 21. Landraces: Widening the narrow gene pool of wheat 22. Next Generation Sequencing in Bread Wheat 23. Genomic Selection in Wheat 24. Role of Gene Editing in Wheat Improvement 25. The Economics of Climate Change and Food Insecurity
Authors
Munir Ozturk Professor / Researcher, Ege University, Bornova Izmir, Turkey. Dr. Munir Ozturk (Ph.D) holds Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the Ege University, Turkiye. He is currently acting as the "Vice President of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences�and is also Fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Science. Dr. Ozturk has been honored as the "Foreign Fellow Pakistan Academy of Science�. He has served at the Ege University-Turkiye for more than 50 years in different positions, has been Founder Director of the Centre for Environmental Studies, Ege University, and Chairman of the Botany Department and Director of the Botanical Garden. Sideritis ozturkii and Verbascum ozturkii are 2 newly recorded endemic plant species from Turkiye in his name. His fields of scientific interest are; pollution & biomonitoring; biosaline agriculture; plant ecophysiology, medicinal and aromatic plants conservation. Dr. Ozturk has published almost 60 books with internationally known publishers including Springer, Elsevier,Taylor & Francis, Wiley and few others. His biodata shows more than 90 book chapters and 200 papers in international journals; 120 with impact factor. He has also presented 125 papers at the International Meetings and 85 at the National Meetings. Dr. Munir has served as a guest editor for more than 13 journals; holds more than 20 Memberships of "Institutions and Professional Bodies�; has been recognized by more than 12 "National and International Bodies�; has received fellowships from the globally recognized Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science, and the National Science Foundation of the USA. He has also worked as consultant fellow at the Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; and as Distinguished Visiting Scientist at International Centre for Chemical and Biological Sciences, ICCBS-TWAS, Karachi University, Pakistan. Alvina Gul Associate Professor, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan.Dr. Alvina Gul is a Tenured Associate Professor at the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. She previously worked for Cornell University in New York, USA; the USDA Genotyping and Sequencing Laboratory at Kansas State University; and the Plant Breeding Institute at the University of Sydney, Australia. The primary focus of her research career has been on integrating new allelic variation for improved wheat crop production and yield maximization in order to enhance food security. Dr. Gul has published more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and 140 book chapters, as well as one book with Elsevier.
