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 …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic diversity, conservation, and utilization of plant genetic resources

RK Salgotra, BS Chauhan - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Plant genetic resources (PGRs) are the total hereditary material, which includes all the
alleles of various genes, present in a crop species and its wild relatives. They are a major …

Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth

A Ortiz-Bobea, TR Ault, CM Carrillo… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Agricultural research has fostered productivity growth, but the historical influence of
anthropogenic climate change (ACC) on that growth has not been quantified. We develop a …

[HTML][HTML] Risks of synchronized low yields are underestimated in climate and crop model projections

K Kornhuber, C Lesk, CF Schleussner… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global
food security. Concurrent weather extremes driven by a strongly meandering jet stream …

Increasing impact of warm droughts on northern ecosystem productivity over recent decades

D Gampe, J Zscheischler, M Reichstein… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate extremes such as droughts and heatwaves have a large impact on terrestrial carbon
uptake by reducing gross primary production (GPP). While the evidence for increasing …

[PDF][PDF] Land–climate interactions

ÉL Davin - 2022 - boris.unibe.ch
Executive summary Land and climate interact in complex ways through changes in forcing
and multiple biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks across different spatial and …

Soil quality both increases crop production and improves resilience to climate change

L Qiao, X Wang, P Smith, J Fan, Y Lu, B Emmett… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Interactions between soil quality and climate change may influence the capacity of
croplands to produce sufficient food. Here, we address this issue by using a new dataset of …

Stronger temperature–moisture couplings exacerbate the impact of climate warming on global crop yields

C Lesk, E Coffel, J Winter, D Ray, J Zscheischler… - Nature food, 2021 - nature.com
Rising air temperatures are a leading risk to global crop production. Recent research has
emphasized the critical role of moisture availability in regulating crop responses to heat and …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change has likely already affected global food production

DK Ray, PC West, M Clark, JS Gerber, AV Prishchepov… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Crop yields are projected to decrease under future climate conditions, and recent research
suggests that yields have already been impacted. However, current impacts on a diversity of …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of climate change on crops adaptation and strategies to tackle its outcome: A review

A Raza, A Razzaq, SS Mehmood, X Zou, X Zhang, Y Lv… - Plants, 2019 - mdpi.com
Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects,
as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse …