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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Addendum -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Global Warming and Evolution of Wild Cereals -- 1.1.1 Domestication: The Bedrock of Evolution -- 1.1.2 The Progenitors of Cultivated Barley and Wheat -- 1.1.3 Performance of Wild Cereals Juxtaposed to Three Decades of Global Warming -- 1.1.4 Evolution of Wild Cereals During the Last Three Decades in Israel -- 1.1.5 Phenotypic and Genotypic SSR Results -- 1.1.6 Effect of Global Warming on Phenotypic and Genotypic Turnover of Wild Emmer Wheat and Wild Barley in Israel -- References -- 2 Wild Cereal Cultivation in Israel-Global Warming: An Important Link -- 2.1 Rice-Its Progenitors and Domestication -- 2.1.1 Rice-Its Domestication Traits -- 2.1.2 Rice Domestication-Conflicts Between Natural Selection and Human Selection -- References -- 3 Climate-Evolution-The Interrelationship -- References -- 4 The Adaptation Range of Wild Crop Species to Fluctuations in Climate Change -- 4.1 Strategies of Genetic Diversity -- References -- 5 Importance of Crop Wild Relatives -- References -- 6 A Crop-Wise Comparison of Domestic Gene Pool with Wild Relatives on Ecogeographic Diversity -- 6.1 Wheat -- 6.2 Barley -- 6.3 Rice -- References -- 7 Relevance of Wild Relatives in Other Crops in Plant Breeding Programs -- References -- 8 Conservation Research and Crop Wild Relatives Use -- 8.1 How Does Climate Change Affect Crop Wild Relatives (CWR)? -- References -- 9 The Threats to Crop Wild Relatives -- 9.1 CWR-Is There a Red List? -- References -- 10 Gene Flow Between Cultivated Plants and Their Wild Relatives -- References -- 11 In Situ Conservation Research in CWR -- References -- 12 Ex Situ Conservation Research in CWR -- References -- 13 Utilizing CWRs in Major Food Crops to Combat Global Warming -- 13.1 Wheat -- 13.1.1 Oryza Sativa -- 13.1.2 Zea Mays -- 13.1.3 Solanum Tuberosum.