Simple Summary Climate change and extreme weather events have a major impact on crop
production and agricultural pests. As generally adaptable organisms, insect pests respond …

Terrestrial ecosystems have encountered substantial warming over the past century, with
temperatures increasing about twice as rapidly over land as over the oceans. Here, we …

Insect pests substantially reduce yields of three staple grains—rice, maize, and wheat—but
models assessing the agricultural impacts of global warming rarely consider crop losses to …

The explosive expansion of the global population and technological progress has greatly
influenced agriculture and food production. However, this progress is threatened by climate …

Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in
the United States: State of Knowledge in: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society …

There is an intrinsic link between the challenge we face to ensure food security through the
twenty-first century and other global issues, most notably climate change, population growth …

Background Transgenic corn engineered with genes expressing insecticidal toxins from the
bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner)(Bt) are now a major tool in insect pest …

Maize is the most important food staple for resource-poor smallholders in Africa, providing
food and income to millions. One of the key constraints to improving food and nutritional …

Overwintering success is an important determinant of arthropod populations that must be
considered as climate change continues to influence the spatiotemporal population …

Reliable large-scale maize production is an essential component of global food security;
however, sustained efforts are needed to ensure optimized resilience under diverse crop …