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- Provides unique insights in the value of Crop Wild Relatives (CWRs) in plant breeding
- Examines the threat that global warming poses to food security
- Discusses the role of world seed conservation measures in Britain and Norway
Part of the book series: Springer Climate (SPCL)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
In turn, the book investigates those plant species which are very closely related to field crops and have the potential to contribute beneficial traits for crop improvement, e.g. resistance to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stresses, enriching the gene pool, and ultimately leading to enhanced plant yield, known as “Crop Wild Relatives” (CWRs). CWRs hold tremendous potential to sustain and enhance global food security, contributing to human well-being. Accordingly, their development, characterization and conservation in crop breeding programs have assumed great practical importance.
Professor Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair is an internationally acclaimed agricultural scientist, with over three decades of experience in Europe, Africa and Asia, holding some of the most prestigious academic positions, including the National Chair of the Science Foundation, The Royal Society, Belgium. A Senior Fellow of the world renowned Alexander von Humboldt Research Foundation of The Federal Republic of Germany, he is best known, globally, for having developed a revolutionary soil management technique, known as "The Nutrient Buffer Power Concept", which, while questioning the scientific fallacies of the highly soil extractive farming, euphemistically known as the "green revolution", has opened up an alternative path for sensible and scientific soil management
Authors and Affiliations
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Calicut, India
Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair
About the author
Professor Nair is best known, globally, for developing “The Nutrient Buffer Power Concept”, a revolutionary soil management technique that is changing the face of modern farming in the developing world. The recipient of several national and international awards for developing this concept and currently nominated for the 2019 Volvo Environment Prize, hehas authored ten books, including “ISSUES IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURE”, which was launched by India’s great President, the late Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in Raj Bhavan, Chennai. He has received six invitations to contribute invitational chapters to ADVANCES IN AGRONOMY, the magnum opus of agricultural science, a world record. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Foundation. Currently pursuing global agricultural research, he lives with his wife, Dr Pankajam Nair, a nematologist trained in Europe, in Calicut, Kerala State, India.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Combating Global Warming
Book Subtitle: The Role of Crop Wild Relatives for Food Security
Authors: Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair
Series Title: Springer Climate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23037-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23036-4Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23039-5Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23037-1Published: 03 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2352-0698
Series E-ISSN: 2352-0701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 120
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Agriculture, Plant Sciences, Sustainable Development, Biodiversity