A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies forthe world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in asustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biologicaldiversity of the global environment. The task of providing for agrowing population is likely to be even more difficult in view ofactual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to globalwarming, and as the population continues to grow. Currentprojections suggest that the world's temperatures will rise 1.8-4.0by 2100 and population may reach 8 billion by the year 2025 andsome 9 billion by mid-century, after which it may stabilize. Thisbook addresses these critical issues by presenting the scienceneeded not only to understand climate change effects on crops butalso to adapt current agricultural systems, particularly in regardto genetics, to the changing conditions.Crop Adaptation to Climate Change covers a spectrum ofissues related to both crops and climatic conditions. The first twosections provide a foundation on the factors involved in climatestress, assessing current climate change by region and coveringcrop physiological responses to these changes. The third and finalsection contains chapters focused on specific crops and the currentresearch to improve their genetic adaptation to climate change.Written by an international team of authors, Crop Adaptationto Climate Change is a timely look at the potentially seriousconsequences of climate change for our global food supply, and isan essential resource for academics, researchers and professionalsin the fields of crop science, agronomy, plant physiology andmolecular biology; crop consultants and breeders; as well asclimate and food scientists.