Sustainable utilization and conservation of plant genetic diversity

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Part I: Biodiversity for Food and Nutritional Security -- Plant Biodiversity in the Context of Food Security Under Climate Change -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Current Biodiversity Crisis -- 3 Why Losing Biodiversity -- 4 Implications for Biodiversity Conservation and Food Security -- 5 Climate Change and Changeability -- 6 Effect of Climate Change on Species Distributions -- 7 Effect of Climatic Changes on Adaptation and Gene Flow -- 8 Effect of Climatic Changes on Genetic Variation -- 9 Impact of Climate Change on Food Security -- 10 Impact of Biodiversity and Climate Change on Food Security -- 11 Utilise Plant Genetic Diversity to Overcome Climate Change -- 12 Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources to Overcome Climate Change -- 13 Conclusions and Perspectives -- References -- Biodiversity of Cereal Crops and Utilization in Food and Nutritional Security -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Food and Nutrition Security Challenge -- 2.1 Role of Biological Diversity in Food Security -- 2.2 Crops Biofortification -- 3 Agrodiversity in Cereal Crops -- 4 Producing Perennials Cereals -- 4.1 Wheat -- 4.2 Rice -- 4.3 Maize -- 4.4 Sorghum -- 5 Transgenic Crops and Food Security -- 6 Balancing Biodiversity -- 7 Challenges in Cereals Agriculture -- 8 Conclusions and Prospects -- References -- Genetic Diversity of Grain Legumes for Food and Nutritional Security -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Grain Legumes and Their Importance -- 1.2 World Production Statistics of Important Grain Legumes -- 1.3 World Consumption Statistics of Grain Legumes -- 1.4 Malnutrition and Global Food Insecurities -- 2 Grain Legume for Food Security -- 2.1 Yield Improvement -- 2.2 Biotic Stress Resistance -- 2.3 Abiotic Stress Resistance -- 3 Grain Legumes for Nutritional Security