Chapter 4
Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation
Strategies for Fruit Crops
Tanmoy Sarkar, Anirban Roy, Sanvar Mal Choudhary, and S. K. Sarkar
Abstract The long life cycles of fruit crops causes these crops to be more challenged under stress as compared to crops of shorter duration that have more
adaptation potential toward ending the crop cycle as quickly as possible. The
inherent potential of these plants, aside from environmental challenges, maintains
a viable production chain involving various strategies for plant management, including plant breeding activities exploiting variations. Genetic control of various traits to
keep crops thriving in adverse situations allows better plant variety selections.
Exploitation of available natural spontaneous and induced variations and selection
based on easy phenotyping protocols provide short-duration annual crop species
such as climate-responsive fruit crop varieties. Because both biotic and abiotic
stresses are becoming unpredictably more frequent, interventions using recently
developed biotechnological information, such as genomic data, can be a boon for
climate-smart fruit crop development.
Keywords Adaptation · Climate change · Fruits · Genetics
Introduction
The prediction for carbon dioxide in environmental concentrations is a 100%
increase by the end of the present century because of emissions to the environment
from industry to developmental activities, and the global temperature will increase
T. Sarkar · S. K. Sarkar
Department of Fruit Science, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West
Bengal, India
A. Roy
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya,
Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India
S. M. Choudhary (*)
Department of Horticulture, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Maharashtra, India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. N. Islam, A. van Amstel (eds.), India: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation
and Adaptation in Developing Countries, Springer Climate,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67865-4_4
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Impact of Climate Change and Adaptation
Strategies for Fruit Crops
Tanmoy Sarkar, Anirban Roy, Sanvar Mal Choudhary, and S. K. Sarkar
Abstract The long life cycles of fruit crops causes these crops to be more challenged under stress as compared to crops of shorter duration that have more
adaptation potential toward ending the crop cycle as quickly as possible. The
inherent potential of these plants, aside from environmental challenges, maintains
a viable production chain involving various strategies for plant management, including plant breeding activities exploiting variations. Genetic control of various traits to
keep crops thriving in adverse situations allows better plant variety selections.
Exploitation of available natural spontaneous and induced variations and selection
based on easy phenotyping protocols provide short-duration annual crop species
such as climate-responsive fruit crop varieties. Because both biotic and abiotic
stresses are becoming unpredictably more frequent, interventions using recently
developed biotechnological information, such as genomic data, can be a boon for
climate-smart fruit crop development.
Keywords Adaptation · Climate change · Fruits · Genetics
Introduction
The prediction for carbon dioxide in environmental concentrations is a 100%
increase by the end of the present century because of emissions to the environment
from industry to developmental activities, and the global temperature will increase
T. Sarkar · S. K. Sarkar
Department of Fruit Science, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West
Bengal, India
A. Roy
Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya,
Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India
S. M. Choudhary (*)
Department of Horticulture, Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth, Rahuri, Maharashtra, India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. N. Islam, A. van Amstel (eds.), India: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation
and Adaptation in Developing Countries, Springer Climate,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67865-4_4
79