Habyarimana, E (2024) Preface: Omics and Biotechnological Approaches for Product Profile-Driven Sorghum Improvement. In: Omics and Biotechnological Approaches for Product Profile-Driven Sorghum Improvement. Springer, Singapore, v-vi. ISBN 978-981-97-4346-9
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The Food and Agriculture Organization reported that maize, rice, and wheat provide about 60% of the world’s food energy intake, while soybean (an oil crop) is the most commonly used crop in animal feed since it has high protein content. The high demand for these four crops over the years explains the current several agricultural technologies and practices designed to increase their productivity and adaptation to different environmental conditions. In parallel to this, consumers developed food expectations tailored to these crop species that are hard to change overnight. However, the current and predicted climate change scenarios are placing much pressure on these major crops to the point of thinking they might become minor crops at some point in the future production environments. Most important climate change indicators include increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, global air temperature increase, drought events, sea surface temperature, and erratic precipitation patterns. These events harm crop production and setback the developed efforts to ensure a stable supply to the growing world’s population.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Global Research Program - Accelerated Crop Improvement |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Agriculture, Genetics and Genomics |
| Subjects: | Others > Biotechnology Others > Crop Improvement Mandate crops > Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2025 09:38 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Aug 2025 09:38 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/13273 |
| Acknowledgement: | UNSPECIFIED |
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