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 impacts on crop yields

EE Rezaei, H Webber, S Asseng, K Boote… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change challenges efforts to maintain and improve crop production in many regions.
In this Review, we examine yield responses to warmer temperatures, elevated carbon …

Ozone pollution threatens the production of major staple crops in East Asia

Z Feng, Y Xu, K Kobayashi, L Dai, T Zhang… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
East Asia is a hotspot of surface ozone (O3) pollution, which hinders crop growth and
reduces yields. Here, we assess the relative yield loss in rice, wheat and maize due to O3 by …

Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

J Bailey-Serres, JE Parker, EA Ainsworth, GED Oldroyd… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The current trajectory for crop yields is insufficient to nourish the world's population by 2050.
Greater and more consistent crop production must be achieved against a backdrop of …

Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Present-day tropospheric ozone distribution and trends relevant to vegetation

G Mills, H Pleijel, CS Malley, B Sinha, OR Cooper… - Elem Sci …, 2018 - online.ucpress.edu
This Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR) on the current state of knowledge of
ozone metrics of relevance to vegetation (TOAR-Vegetation) reports on present-day global …

Effects of ozone on agriculture, forests and grasslands

L Emberson - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The damage and injury that ground level ozone (O3) causes vegetation has become
increasingly evident over the past half century with a large body of observational and …

Assessing the costs of ozone pollution in India for wheat producers, consumers, and government food welfare policies

D Pandey, K Sharps, D Simpson… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We assess wheat yield losses occurring due to ozone pollution in India and its economic
burden on producers, consumers, and the government. Applying an ozone flux–based risk …

Warming and elevated ozone induce tradeoffs between fine roots and mycorrhizal fungi and stimulate organic carbon decomposition

Y Qiu, L Guo, X Xu, L Zhang, K Zhang, M Chen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Climate warming and elevated ozone (eO3) are important climate change components that
can affect plant growth and plant-microbe interactions. However, the resulting impact on soil …

[HTML][HTML] Air pollution removal through deposition on urban vegetation: The importance of vegetation characteristics

J Linden, M Gustafsson, J Uddling, Å Watne… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban vegetation has the potential to improve air quality as it promotes pollutant deposition
and retention. Urban air quality models often include the effect vegetation have on pollution …

The dynamics of climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review of climate-smart agriculture among small-scale farmers

VO Abegunde, M Sibanda, A Obi - Climate, 2019 - mdpi.com
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as a credible alternative to tackle food insecurity under the
changing climate is gaining wide acceptance. However, many developing countries have …