Food security, climate change and genetic resources / Robert S. Zeigler -- Genetic resources and conservation challenges under the threat of climate change / Brian Ford-Lloyd, Johannes M.M. Engels and Michael Jackson -- Climate projections / Richard A. Betts and Ed Hawkins -- Effects of climate change on potential food production and risk of hunger / Martin Parry -- Regional impacts of climate change on agriculture and the role of adaptation / Pam Berry, Julian Ramirez-Villegas, Helen Bramley, Mary A. Mgonja and Samarendu Mohanty -- International mechanisms for conservation and use of genetic resources / Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Hawtin -- Crop wild relatives and climate change / Nigel Maxted, Shelagh Kell and Joana Magos Brehm -- Climate change and on-farm conservation of crop landraces in centres of diversity / Mauricio R. Bellon and Jacob van Etten -- Germplasm databases and informatics / Helen Ougham and Ian D. Thomas -- Exploring "omics" of genetic resources to mitigate the effects of climate change / Kenneth L. McNally -- Harnessing meiotic recombination for improved crop varieties / Susan J. Armstrong -- High temperature stress / Maduraimuthu Djanaguiraman and P.V. Vara Prasad -- Drought / Salvatore Ceccarelli -- Salinity / William Erskine, Hari D. Upadhyaya and Al Imran Malik -- Response to flooding : submergence tolerance in rice / Abdelbagi M. Ismail and David J. Mackill -- Effects of climate change on plant-insect interactions and prospects for resistance breeding using genetic resources / Jeremy Pritchard, Colette Broekgaarden and Ben Vosman.