Beat the stress: breeding for climate resilience in maize for the tropical rainfed environments

BM Prasanna, JE Cairns, PH Zaidi, Y Beyene… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Key message Intensive public sector breeding efforts and public-private partnerships have
led to the increase in genetic gains, and deployment of elite climate-resilient maize cultivars …

Overview on the review articles published during the past 30 years relating to the potential climate change effects on plant pathogens and crop disease risks

P Juroszek, P Racca, S Link, J Farhumand… - Plant …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
From 1988 to July 2019 more than 100 review articles were published, including opinion
papers and book chapters, that focused on potential climate change effects on plant …

Modelling the impacts of pests and diseases on agricultural systems

M Donatelli, RD Magarey, S Bregaglio, L Willocquet… - Agricultural systems, 2017 - Elsevier
The improvement and application of pest and disease models to analyse and predict yield
losses including those due to climate change is still a challenge for the scientific community …

Map** disruption and resilience mechanisms in food systems

S Savary, S Akter, C Almekinders, J Harris, L Korsten… - Food Security, 2020 - Springer
This opinion article results from a collective analysis by the Editorial Board of Food Security.
It is motivated by the ongoing covid-19 global epidemic, but expands to a broader view on …

Crop losses due to diseases and their implications for global food production losses and food security

S Savary, A Ficke, JN Aubertot, C Hollier - Food security, 2012 - Springer
The status of global food security, ie, the balance between the growing food demand of the
world population and global agricultural output, combined with discrepancies between …

Projections of climate conditions that increase coral disease susceptibility and pathogen abundance and virulence

J Maynard, R Van Hooidonk, CM Eakin… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
Rising sea temperatures are likely to increase the frequency of disease outbreaks affecting
reef-building corals through impacts on coral hosts and pathogens. We present and …

Impacts of climate change on plant diseases—opinions and trends

M Pautasso, TF Döring, M Garbelotto, L Pellis… - European journal of …, 2012 - Springer
There has been a remarkable scientific output on the topic of how climate change is likely to
affect plant diseases. This overview addresses the need for review of this burgeoning …

Conservation agriculture in Southern Africa: Advances in knowledge

C Thierfelder, L Rusinamhodzi, AR Ngwira… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2015 - cambridge.org
The increasing demand for food from limited available land, in light of declining soil fertility
and future threats of climate variability and change have increased the need for more …

Drivers of emerging fungal diseases of forest trees

L Ghelardini, AL Pepori, N Luchi, P Capretti… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
In order to prevent emerging infective diseases (EIDs), which increasingly threaten trees of
agro-forest and urban ecosystems, a thorough understanding of the factors causing them is …

Climate change and potential future risks through wheat diseases: a review

P Juroszek, A von Tiedemann - European Journal of Plant Pathology, 2013 - Springer
This review summarizes the most significant results from the so far existing, but fragmented
studies on the potential effects of climate change on wheat pathogens and the diseases they …