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 …

Irrigation in the Earth system

S McDermid, M Nocco, P Lawston-Parker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Irrigation accounts for~ 70% of global freshwater withdrawals and~ 90% of consumptive
water use, driving myriad Earth system impacts. In this Review, we summarize how irrigation …

The effect of increasing temperature on crop photosynthesis: from enzymes to ecosystems

CE Moore, K Meacham-Hensold… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
As global land surface temperature continues to rise and heatwave events increase in
frequency, duration, and/or intensity, our key food and fuel cropping systems will likely face …

Climate change challenges, plant science solutions

NA Eckardt, EA Ainsworth, RN Bahuguna… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Climate change is a defining challenge of the 21st century, and this decade is a critical time
for action to mitigate the worst effects on human populations and ecosystems. Plant science …

Changes in the drought sensitivity of US maize yields

DB Lobell, JM Deines, SD Tommaso - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
As climate change leads to increased frequency and severity of drought in many agricultural
regions, a prominent adaptation goal is to reduce the drought sensitivity of crop yields. Yet …

Improved net carbon budgets in the US Midwest through direct measured impacts of enhanced weathering

IB Kantola, E Blanc‐Betes, MD Masters… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial enhanced weathering (EW) through the application of Mg‐or Ca‐rich rock dust to
soil is a negative emission technology with the potential to address impacts of climate …

Redefining droughts for the US Corn Belt: The dominant role of atmospheric vapor pressure deficit over soil moisture in regulating stomatal behavior of Maize and …

H Kimm, K Guan, P Gentine, J Wu, CJ Bernacchi… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The US Corn Belt, the world's biggest production region for corn and soybean
combined, is prone to droughts. Currently 92% of the US Corn Belt croplands are rainfed …

Long-term crop rotation diversification enhances maize drought resistance through soil organic matter

LLR Renwick, W Deen, L Silva… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Climate change adaptation requires building agricultural system resilience to warmer, drier
climates. Increasing temporal plant diversity through crop rotation diversification increases …

Integrating genetic gain and gap analysis to predict improvements in crop productivity

M Cooper, T Tang, C Gho, T Hart, G Hammer… - Crop …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract A Crop Growth Model (CGM) is used to demonstrate a biophysical framework for
predicting grain yield outcomes for Genotype by Environment by Management (G× E× M) …

Spatial resolution of an integrated C4+CAM photosynthetic metabolism

JJ Moreno-Villena, H Zhou, IS Gilman, SL Tausta… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
C4 and CAM photosynthesis have repeatedly evolved in plants over the past 30 million
years. Because both repurpose the same set of enzymes but differ in their spatial and …