This book focuses on using genetic resources to mitigate the effects of climate change and improve crop production. It emphasizes recent advances in mathematics and omics technologies while addressing issues related to the adaptation of crops to changing and fluctuating climatic conditions. With contributions from leading scientists and practitioners, it presents a broad view of the interplay of biodiversity in agriculture, discusses answers to some of the latest problems, and highlights ways to provide useful information to those who are working to address the effects of global warming and climate change.

CLIMATE-CHANGE IMPLICATIONS FOR DRYLANDS AND FARMING COMMUNITIES. Climate Change and Dryland Systems. Plant Genetic Resources and Climate Change: Stakeholder Perspectives from the Nordic and Arctic Regions. Adaptation of Farmers to Climate Change: A Systems Approach to Cereal Production in Benslimane Region, Morocco. Assessment of the Demand-Supply Match for Agricultural Innovations in Africa. POTENTIAL OF USING GENETIC RESOURCES AND BIODIVERSITY TO ADAPT TO AND MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE. Exploitation of Genetic Resources to Sustain Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change with Special Reference to Wheat. Utilizing the Diversity of Wild Soybeans in China for Accelerating Soybean Breeding in the Genome Era. Adaptation of Potato (Solanum tuberosum) and Tomato (S. lycopersicum) to Climate Change. Barley Genetic Resources for Climate-Change Adaptation: Searching for Heat-Tolerant Traits through Rapid Evaluation of Subsets. Fruit Genetic Resources Facing Increasing Climate Uncertainty. APPLIED MATHEMATICS (UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS). Applied Mathematics in Genetic Resources: Toward a Synergistic Approach Combining Innovations with Theoretical Aspects. Power Transformations: Application for Symmetrizing the Distribution of Sample Coefficient of Variation from Inverse Gaussian Populations. Toward More Effective Discovery and Deployment of Novel Plant Genetic Variation: Reflection and Future Directions. Identifying Climate Patterns during the Crop-Growing Cycle from 30 Years of CIMMYT Elite Spring Wheat International Yield Trials. Assessing Plant Genetic Resources for Climate-Change Adaptive Traits: Heat Traits. Plant Genetic Diversity: Statistical Methods for Analyzing Distribution and Diversity of Species. APPLIED OMICS TECHNOLOGIES. Exploiting Germplasm Resources for Climate-Change Adaptation in Faba Bean. Developing Climate-Change Adaptive Crops to Sustain Agriculture in Dryland Systems through Applied Mathematics and Genomics. Toward the Rapid Domestication of Perennial Grains: Developing Genetic and Genomic Resources for Intermediate Wheatgrass. Traits for Testing, Screening, and Improving Salt Tolerance of Durum Wheat Genetic Resources. Gene Flow as a Source of Adaptation of Durum Wheat to Changing Conditions Including Climate Change: Double Gradient Selection Technique. Addressing Diversity of Ethiopian Durum Wheat Landrace Populations Using Microsatellite Markers.