Plant disease outbreaks pose significant risks to global food security and environmental
sustainability worldwide, and result in the loss of primary productivity and biodiversity that …

Climate change imposes a severe threat to agricultural systems, food security, and human
nutrition. Meanwhile, efforts in crop and livestock gene editing have been undertaken to …

Rice production has faced numerous challenges in recent years, and traditional methods
are still being used to detect rice diseases. This research project developed an automated …

Background Bacterial blight of rice, caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), is a
devastating rice disease in Southeast Asia and West Africa. OsSWEET14, encoding a sugar …

Blight-resistant rice lines are the most effective solution for bacterial blight, caused by
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo). Key resistance mechanisms involve SWEET genes …

Highlights•Investigations of climate change impacts still concentrate on few crops and
pathogens.•Climate model ensembles can quantify some uncertainty in crop disease …

Understanding climate variability and change is essential for designing adaptation policies
and strategies to deal with the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector. This …

In recent decades, there have been substantial increases in crop production in sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) as a result of higher yields, increased cropping intensity, expansion of irrigated …

This article addresses the modelling of crop health and its impact on crop losses, with a
special emphasis on plant diseases. Plant disease epidemiological models have many …

International crop‐related research as conducted by the CGIAR uses crop modeling for a
variety of purposes. By linking crop models with economic models and approaches, crop …