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 …

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not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture …

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 COVID-19 pandemic highlights that we exist in a global community. From a single city, it
spread to 188 countries across the world and infected 30 million people by September 18 …

Feeding a growing global population in a changing climate presents a significant challenge
to society,. The projected yields of crops under a range of agricultural and climatic scenarios …

Rice blast is a serious fungal disease of rice (Oryza sativa L.) that is threatening global food
security. It has been extensively studied due to the importance of rice production and …

Plants can be colonized by fungi that have adopted highly diverse lifestyles, ranging from
symbiotic to necrotrophic. Colonization is governed in all systems by hundreds of secreted …

Global food security is threatened by the emergence and spread of crop pests and
pathogens. Spread is facilitated primarily by human transportation, but there is increasing …

Climate change is affecting the biology, distribution and outbreak potential of pests in a vast
range of crops and across all land uses and landscapes. Up to 40% of the world's food …

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