title: Functional cereals for production in new and variable climates.
abstract: Adaptation of cereal crops to variable or changing climates requires that essential quality attributes are maintained to deliver food that will be acceptable to human consumers. Advances in cereal genomics are delivering insights into the molecular basis of nutritional and functional quality traits in cereals and defining new genetic resources. Understanding the influence of the environment on expression of these traits will support the retention of these essential functional properties during climate adaptation. New cereals for use as whole grain or ground to flour for other food products may be based upon the traditional species such as rice and wheat currently used in these food applications but may also include new options exploiting genomics tools to allow accelerated domestication of new species.
authors.affiliation: Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia. Electronic address: robert.henry@uq.edu.au.
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.affiliation: Division of Genomic Resources, ICAR-National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi 110012, India.
authors.forename: Parimalan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rangan
authors.affiliation: Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Agnelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Furtado
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D002980:Climate; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002523:Edible Grain / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*