An integrated approach to maintaining cereal productivity under climate change


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Matthew Reynolds, Emma Quilligan, Pramod Aggarwal, Kailash C. Bansal, Tony Cavalieri, Scott Chapman, Sahara Moon Chapotin, Jeet Singh Sandhu, Etienne Duveiller, Kulvinder Gill, Krishna S. V. Jagadish, Arun Kumar Joshi, Ann-kristin Koehler, Petr Kosina, Srivalli Krishnan, Renee Lafitte, Rajendra S. Mahala, Raveendran Muthurajan, Andrew H. Paterson, Boddupalli M. Prasanna, Sujay Rakshit, Mark Rosegrant, Indu Sharma, Ravi Singh, Shoba Sivasankar, Vincent Vadez, Ravi Valluru, P. V. Vara Prasad, Hari Prakash Yadav. (17/2/2016). An integrated approach to maintaining cereal productivity under climate change. Global Food Security, 8, pp. 9-18.
Wheat, rice,maize,pearlmillet,andsorghumprovideoverhalfoftheworld'sfoodcalories.Tomaintain global foodsecurity,withtheaddedchallengeofclimatechange,thereisanincreasingneedtoexploit existinggeneticvariabilityanddevelopcultivarswithsuperiorgeneticyieldpotentialandstressadap- tation. Theopportunitytoshareknowledgebetweencropsandidentifyprioritytraitsforfutureresearch can beexploitedtoincreasebreedingimpactsandassistinidentifyingthegeneticlocithatcontrol adaptation. Amoreinternationallycoordinatedapproachtocropphenotypingandmodeling,combined with effectivesharingofknowledge,facilities,anddata,willboostthecosteffectivenessandfacilitate genetic gainsofallstaplecrops,withlikelyspillovertomoreneglectedcrops

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