Compound heat and moisture extreme impacts on global crop yields under climate change

C Lesk, W Anderson, A Rigden, O Coast… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Extreme heat, drought and moisture excess are increasingly co-occurring within a single
growing season, impacting crop yields in global breadbasket regions. In this Review, we …

Abiotic stress in crop production

R Kopecká, M Kameniarová, M Černý… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The vast majority of agricultural land undergoes abiotic stress that can significantly reduce
agricultural yields. Understanding the mechanisms of plant defenses against stresses and …

Seed germination and vigor: ensuring crop sustainability in a changing climate

RC Reed, KJ Bradford, I Khanday - Heredity, 2022 - nature.com
In the coming decades, maintaining a steady food supply for the increasing world population
will require high-yielding crop plants which can be productive under increasingly variable …

Extreme rainfall reduces one-twelfth of China's rice yield over the last two decades

J Fu, Y Jian, X Wang, L Li, P Ciais, J Zscheischler… - Nature food, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme climate events constitute a major risk to global food production. Among these,
extreme rainfall is often dismissed from historical analyses and future projections, the …

Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks

L Rosa - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

[HTML][HTML] Severity of drought and heatwave crop losses tripled over the last five decades in Europe

TA Brás, J Seixas, N Carvalhais… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme weather disasters (EWDs) can jeopardize domestic food supply and disrupt
commodity markets. However, historical impacts on European crop production associated …

PGPR in agriculture: A sustainable approach to increasing climate change resilience

A Shah, M Nazari, M Antar, LA Msimbira… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Growing environmental concerns are potentially narrowing global yield capacity of
agricultural systems. Climate change is the most significant problem the world is currently …

Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields

C Lesk, E Coffel, J Winter, D Ray, J Zscheischler… - Nature food, 2021 - nature.com
Rising air temperatures are a leading risk to global crop production. Recent research has
emphasized the critical role of moisture availability in regulating crop responses to heat and …

Modern plant biotechnology as a strategy in addressing climate change and attaining food security

TIK Munaweera, NU Jayawardana… - Agriculture & Food …, 2022 - Springer
Global warming causes a range of negative impacts on plants especially due to rapid
changes in temperatures, alterations of rainfall patterns, floods or drought conditions, and …

Engineering plants with carbon nanotubes: a sustainable agriculture approach

M Safdar, W Kim, S Park, Y Gwon, YO Kim… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Sustainable agriculture is an important conception to meet the growing food demand of the
global population. The increased need for adequate and safe food, as well as the ongoing …