In addition to increasing anthropogenic pressures such as logging and livestock breeding, global climate change is expected to influence the future distribution, composition and structure of forests in Mongolia, and have an impact on larch forests in particular (Dulamsuren et al. 2011; Natsagdorj 2014).
Identification of loci and/or genomic regions associated with local adaptation is necessary for knowledge of both evolution and molecular breeding for climate change.
Late Breeding in Antarctica Climate change can mean more than melting glaciers and rising sea levels.
Plant breeding might further reduce the vulnerability of modern energy crops to climate change, but breeding efforts have just begun and their prospects are uncertain [ 53].
Crop growth simulation models are a useful tool to assess the impact of environment, crop management, genetics and breeding strategies, as well as climate change and variability on growth and yield.
Just as stagnant water and climate change provide breeding grounds for mosquitoes to transmit malaria, so do our homes and cities and neighborhoods fuel the disquiet of a perceived solitary existence.
Other issues include the stress put on bees by large commercial beekeepers, particularly to service the agri-business demand for bees needed for the California almond crop in late winter before bees normally repopulate, as well as climate change and breeding issues.
New breeding challenges imposed by global climate change and new regulations urge pea breeders to undertake more efficient methods of selection and better take advantage of the large genetic diversity present in the Pisum sativum genepool.
Breeding for resilience to climate change will depend more on enhanced traits to be developed by current and emerging biotechnologies; these will continue to unfold as an application of the scaling of the quantitative biology continuum in response to multiple abiotic stresses.
If the treaty is silent on threats to agriculture, it will be immensely difficult to convince decision makers to invest in adaptation efforts, like maintaining gene banks and establishing breeding programs focused on climate change.
