Chapter 7

Modern Tools for Enhancing Crop Adaptation to Climatic Changes

Kinza Waqar, Orooj Surriya, Fakiha Afzal, Ghulam Kubra, Shabina Iram, Muhammad Ashraf and Alvina Gul Kazi

Besides various uncertainties in the climate, there are certainties too. Whatever mitigation efforts are made, Earth’s temperature will keep on rising in the upcoming years. Furthermore, increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and ozone are also unavoidable. Other climatic changes lead to various severe conditions such as drought, soil erosion, increased precipitation, salinity, flooding, and weather extremes. All these changes, especially global warming, pose a serious threat to crops and badly affect yields. Due to certain global trends, e.g., increasing population, ...

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