The global population is projected to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and food and feed production will need to increase by 70%. Wheat, maize and sorghum are three key cereals which provide nutrition for the majority of the world's population. Their production is affected by various abiotic stresses which cause significant yield losses. The effects of climate change also increase the frequency and severity of such abiotic stresses. Molecular breeding technologies offer real hope for improving crop yields. Although significant progress has been made over the last few years, there is still a need to bridge the large gap between yields in the most favorable and most stressful conditions. This book: - Provides a valuable resource for wheat, maize and sorghum scientists working on breeding and molecular biology, physiology and biotechnology. - Presents the latest in-depth research in the area of abiotic stress tolerance and yield improvements. - Contains the necessary information to allow plant breeders to apply this research to effectively breed new varieties of these crops. It provides a consolidated reference for plant breeders and crop scientists working on the challenges of enhanced crop productivity and climate change adaptability.

Contributions by: Andrea Acuna, Muhammad Amjad Ali, John Amalraj, Maria Arguello, Arushi Arora, Diana Ballesteros, Bhoja R Basnet, Salma Bhyan, Richard Boyles, Faïçal Brini, Yibo Cao, S Antony Ceasar, Nidhi Chakma, Subhadra Chakrabarty, Moutoshi Chakraborty, Harmeet Singh Chawla, Dharampal Choudhary, Mukesh Choudhary, M C Dagla, Mônica Furaste Danilevicz, Abhijit Kumar Das, Haixiao Dong, Kate Dreher, Susanne Dreisigacker, David Edwards, Xiaorong Fan, Maria Laura Federico, Cassandria Tay Fernandez, Ertugrul Filiz, Monika Garg, Claudia Teixeira Guimaraes, Karama Hamdi, K Hariprasanna, Firoz Hossain, Guanghui Hu, Zhaorong Hu, B S Jat, Caifu Jiang, Faiz Ahmad Joyia, Mehar Kamboj, Chikkappa Karjagi, Lovenpreet Kaur, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Emna Khanfir, Rajesh Khulbe, Bhupender Kumar, Pardeep Kumar, Pradeep Kumar, Santosh Kumar, Firat Kurt, Zhao Li, Yun-Hua Liu, Ningthaipuilu Longmei, Damar Lopez-Arredondo, Jurandir Vieira de Magalhaes, T Maharajan, Jacob Marsh, R. Esten Mason, Clémentine Mercé, Ghulam Mustafa, Vignesh Muthusamy, Sudha K Nair, Zhongfu Ni, Kazutoshi Okuno, Geoffrey Onaga, Huiru Peng, Jorge Fernando Pereira, SACN Perera, Bhukya Prakash, Lydia Pramitha, P Rajendrakumar, Mantena Raju, Savaram VR Rao, Ali Razzaq, P Sanjana Reddy, Trenton Roberts, G Victor Roch, Umesh R Rosyara, Pawan Saini, Sindhu Sareen, Gajanan Saykhedkar, André Schaffasz, Armin Scheben, Natasha Sharma, Tariq Shehzad, Sonia Sheoran, Charan Singh, Ishwar Singh, Prabha Singh, Vishal Singh, Rod Snowdon, Nithya Subramanian, Qixin Sun, Madhumal Thayil Vinayan, Yiqiao Wang, Shabir Hussain Wani, Steffen Windpassinger, Kerstin Wydra, Yinping Jiao, Mingming Xin, Ines Yacoubi, Pranjal Yadava, Yingyin Yao, Kuohai Yu, Yaping Yuan, Pervez Haider Zaidi, Hong-Bin Zhang, Meiping Zhang, Zhiwu Zhang, Rajkumar U Zunjare