"Concise Oxford Dictionary defines Resilience as recoiling; springing back; resuming its original shape after bending, stretching, compression etc. With five components of crop production space, water, energy, light, nutrients- limiting, there are stresses on crops to perform at threshold input yielding optimum output. Droughts and floods, cold and heat waves, forest fires, landslides and mud slips, ice storms, dust storms, hailstorms, thunder clouds associated with lightening and sea level rise are throwing new challenges to farming. This dangerously narrow level of food base prompts to widen the base of grains, vegetables, fruits, spices, industrial crops, mushrooms and aromatic plants. The emphasis so far was more on terrestrial plants, forest plants and lesser on lower plants. The aquatic plants-fresh water, brackish water, marine- were not much explored for edible use except by Chinese and Japanese. Halophytes, bryophytes, ferns and sea weeds are so far climate resilient. The Indo-Burmese Centre of origin (Hindustan centre including North East) is abode of several plants of possible vegetable, fruit and spicy value. The New Life styles consequent to migration for employment have brought newer food and dietary patterns. The urbanization and smaller family size are leading to pre-cooked foods and visitation to restaurants. s on bryophytes, halophytes, microalgae, chasmophytes, pseudocereals, medicinal mushrooms, speciality mushrooms, palmyrah palms, bramakamal, tropical tuber crops, dragon fruits, broad dhaniya, plants for dyes, kale and ornamental ginger are authored by eminent working scientists from 21 Universities and Research Institutes in Japan and India. The crops for the future especially climate resilient are to be identified and promoted in an emerging production scenario of new life style foods and convenient speciality foods getting attention by the new generation. The present book Climate Resilient Crops for the Future carries 17 chapters authored by men of eminence in respective areas concerning to the above areas.

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"01 Climate Change and Agriculture by GSLHV Prasada Rao 02 Bryophytes as Future Foods by Yoshinori Asakawa and Agnieszka Ludwiczuk 03 Halophytes- Alternative Food Crops from Saline and Coastal Habitats by P. Kaladharan and Baby Ushakiran, M.S. 04 Microalgae by Neha Chamoli Bhatt and Sushma Tamta 05 Pseudocereals by M. Dutta and J.C. Rana 06 Edible Chasmophytes by Binu Thomas and Rajendran Arumugam 07 Palmyrah Palm by Jiji George and Anitha Karun 08 Brahmakamal by Manu Pant 09 Tropical Tuber Crops by James George and Suresh Kumar, P. 10 Dragon Fruit by P. Bhattacharjee and D. Chatterjee 11 Broad Dhaniya by Shrawan Singh 12 Black Caraway by S.K. Gupta, Sandeep Sehgal, N.S. Raina and L.M. Gupta 13 Plants for Dyes by S. Sarada 14 Kale by Chander Parkash, S.S. Dey and Vijay Bhardwaj 15 Ornamental Gingers by Sheela Jaygopal 16 Speciality Mushrooms by B.L. Dhar 17 Leaf Vegetables of Mizoram by B.K. Singh, V.K. Verma and Y. Ramakrishna

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