%0 Book Section
%A Reddy, P S
%A Sreenivasulu, N
%B Cereal Genomics II
%C Netherlands
%D 2013
%F icrisat:8731
%I Springer Netherlands
%K Plant Genetics & Genomics; Plant Breeding; Cereal grains; Cereals, Food security; Calories
%P 177-214
%T Different Omics Approaches in Cereals and Their Possible Implications for Developing a System Biology Approach to Study the Mechanism of Abiotic Stress Tolerance
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/8731/
%X Cereals comprise a number of crops including rice, wheat, maize, barley, rye and sorghum. In the form of starch and proteins, the cereal grains provide nearly 60 % of the calories consumed globally as food and fodder. There is a growing challenge to meet the global demand of food security for a human population of 9 billion expected by the year 2050.