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 …

Climate change challenges plant breeding

W Xiong, M Reynolds, Y Xu - Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Plant breeding is important to cope with climate change impacts, complementing crop
management and policy interventions to ensure global food production. However, changes …

Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models

J Jägermeyr, C Müller, AC Ruane, J Elliott, J Balkovic… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Potential climate-related impacts on future crop yield are a major societal concern. Previous
projections of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project's Global …

Global crop yields can be lifted by timely adaptation of growing periods to climate change

S Minoli, J Jägermeyr, S Asseng, A Urfels… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Adaptive management of crop growing periods by adjusting sowing dates and cultivars is
one of the central aspects of crop production systems, tightly connected to local climate …

Silver lining to a climate crisis in multiple prospects for alleviating crop waterlogging under future climates

K Liu, MT Harrison, H Yan, DL Liu, H Meinke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Extreme weather events threaten food security, yet global assessments of impacts caused
by crop waterlogging are rare. Here we first develop a paradigm that distils common stress …

Climate change may outpace current wheat breeding yield improvements in North America

T Zhang, Y He, R DePauw, Z Jin, D Garvin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Variety adaptation to future climate for wheat is important but lacks comprehensive
understanding. Here, we evaluate genetic advancement under current and future climate …

Future climate change significantly alters interannual wheat yield variability over half of harvested areas

W Liu, T Ye, J Jägermeyr, C Müller… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change affects the spatial and temporal distribution of crop yields, which can
critically impair food security across scales. A number of previous studies have assessed the …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of agricultural adaptations to climate change from a water-energy-food nexus perspective

L Wu, A Elshorbagy, W Helgason - Agricultural Water Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Adapting agriculture to climate change without deteriorating natural resources (eg, water
and energy) is critical to sustainable development. In this paper, we first comprehensively …

The optimization of model ensemble composition and size can enhance the robustness of crop yield projections

L Li, B Wang, P Feng, J Jägermeyr, S Asseng… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Linked climate and crop simulation models are widely used to assess the impact of climate
change on agriculture. However, it is unclear how ensemble configurations (model …

[HTML][HTML] Agriculture and food security under a changing climate: An underestimated challenge

R Seppelt, S Klotz, E Peiter, M Volk - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Pathways to eradicate global hunger while bending the curve of biodiversity loss
unanimously suggest changing to less energy-rich diets, closing yield gaps through …