Root growth adaptation to climate change in crops

J Calleja-Cabrera, M Boter, L Oñate-Sánchez… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is threatening crop productivity worldwide and new solutions to adapt crops
to these environmental changes are urgently needed. Elevated temperatures driven by …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Economic losses due to ozone impacts on human health, forest productivity and crop yield across China

Z Feng, A De Marco, A Anav, M Gualtieri, P Sicard… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
China's economic growth has significantly increased emissions of tropospheric ozone (O 3)
precursors, resulting in increased regional O 3 pollution. We analyzed data from> 1400 …

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 …

Understanding and improving global crop response to ozone pollution

EA Ainsworth - The Plant Journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Concentrations of ground‐level ozone ([O3]) over much of the Earth's land surface have
more than doubled since pre‐industrial times. The air pollutant is highly variable over time …

Closing the global ozone yield gap: Quantification and cobenefits for multistress tolerance

G Mills, K Sharps, D Simpson, H Pleijel… - Global Change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing both crop productivity and the tolerance of crops to abiotic and biotic stresses is a
major challenge for global food security in our rapidly changing climate. For the first time, we …

Ozone pollution will compromise efforts to increase global wheat production

G Mills, K Sharps, D Simpson, H Pleijel… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction of high‐performing crop cultivars and crop/soil water management practices that
increase the stomatal uptake of carbon dioxide and photosynthesis will be instrumental in …

Ground-level O3 pollution and its impacts on food crops in China: a review

Z Feng, E Hu, X Wang, L Jiang, X Liu - Environmental Pollution, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Ground-level ozone (O 3) pollution has become one of the top environmental
issues in China, especially in those economically vibrant and densely populated regions. In …

Addressing China's grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring environmental sustainability

Y Lu, A Jenkins, RC Ferrier, M Bailey, IJ Gordon… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
China's increasingly urbanized and wealthy population is driving a growing and changing
demand for food, which might not be met without significant increase in agricultural …