Climate change is triggering similar effects on the incidence and severity of disease for
crops in agriculture and wild plants in natural communities. The complexity of natural …

Disease in wild plant populations has received less attention from plant pathologists than
diseases of managed plants in agriculture, horticulture, and plantation forestry. Plant …

Findings on climate change influence on plant pathogens are often inconsistent and context
dependent. Knowledge of pathogens affecting agricultural crops and natural plant …

Research in the effects of climate change on plant disease continues to be limited, but some
striking progress has been made. At the genomic level, advances in technologies for the …

Plant disease outbreaks pose significant risks to global food security and environmental
sustainability worldwide, and result in the loss of primary productivity and biodiversity that …

Highlights•Climate change is altering the distributions and impacts of plant pests and
diseases.•Observational data, predictive models and experimental manipulations are used …

Pathogens are powerful evolutionary forces shaping the structure and dynamics of both
individual species and of the communities of which they are part, at a broad range of …

Global environmental changes caused by natural and human activities have accelerated in
the past 200 years. The increase in greenhouse gases is predicted to continue to raise …

Climate change is predicted to cause adverse effects on global agricultural production by
influencing spatial and temporal disease epidemics. The increase in temperature and …

Pathogens are associated with virtually all plant species, from a diverse array of habitats.
Although we know the most about diseases of economically important plants, the goal of this …