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The food legume crops play a crucial role in terms of food and nutritional security and are an important pillar of sustainable food production globally. Food legume crops are important components of cropping systems and provide an opportunity to produce diversified food products for human consumption. Inclusion of these crops into agricultural production systems increases the profitability of cropping...
Global climate warming has become increasingly evident during recent decades (Karl et al., 1997, Scientific Am 276, 78–83; Zhang et al., 2000, Atmosphere-Ocean 38, 395–429). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2007a, b, Climate change 2007: Synthesis report) has documented the fact that global temperatures have been increasing and are projected to continue to increase by approximately...
Predictions of future climates indicate big changes in temperature, rainfall pattern, humidity and moisture regimes over the next 50 years. These climate changes will greatly influence the entire cropping system in all continents and affect the performance of cultivars of different field crops including legumes. Future legume cultivars will need to maintain or even to be higher yielding under the...
A substantial proportion of the population of the Indian sub-continent depends on cool season grain legumes (in particular, dry pea, chickpea and lentil) as a major component of their diet. From 2001 to 2007, India was the main producer of the major cool season grain legume crops, followed by Canada, China, France and Russia. Although India was the main producer of cool season grain legumes from 2001...
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 develop new, improved varieties of crops. Crop Wild Relative and Climate Change integrates crop evolution,...
The strategy of most concern in this chapter is the importance of agricultural biodiversity, utilization, and maintenance of plant genetic resources for crop improvement and diversification of agricultural and food systems. This chapter reviews the current global food security context and the need to feed a growing global population with limited access to natural resources in the context of significant...
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