Cultivation for Climate Change Resilience, Volume 2: Temperate Fruit Trees

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This book focuses on various tropical fruit tree species management for climate change including mitigation strategies and technological countermeasures taken by researchers, progressive growers and commercial companies to overcome the adverse changes. It can be considered as a unique source emphasizing the fruit species solitary not by subject as usual to enable readers reaching directly to their crop of interest. The content includes genetic resources conservation, remote sensing and environmental certification. Increasing attention of society toward information and measures taken by various stakeholders about climate change risks and threats makes this book very timely.

Key points

• Provides a contemporary view of the impact of climate change on cultivation of individual fruit species.

• Offers modern approaches for mitigating the adverse impact of climate change on fruits cultivation.

• Describes research progress of understanding and combating the impact of climate change on fruits production.

• Illustrates presented concepts with relevant figures and tabulated data.

Author(s): Jameel M. Al-Khayri, Adel A. Abul-Soad
Publisher: CRC Press/Science Publishers
Year: 2023

Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Boca Raton

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Table of Contents
Part I: Conceptual Framework
1. Implications of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security
2. Instigating Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies to Combat Impact of Global Climate Change in Fruit Crops
Part II: Warm Temperate Fruits
3. Citrus Production in Climate Change Era
4. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies of Common Fig (Ficus carica L.) Cultivation
5. Cactus Pear (Opuntia spp.): A Multipurpose Crop with High Tolerance to Adverse Climate
6. Cultivation of Date Palm for Enhanced Resilience to Climate Change
7. Grape Cultivation for Climate Change Resilience
8. Climate Change and Its Implications for the Cultivation of Olive
9. Prospects of Climate Resilience in Pomegranate
Part III: Cool Temperate Fruits
10. Behavior of Apricot (Prunus armeniaca L.) under Climate Change
11. Impact of Climate Change on Plum (Prunus domestica L.)
Index