Abstract

Ongoing climate change is expected to have impacts on crops, insect pests, and plant pathogens and poses considerable threats to sustainable food security. Existing reviews have summarized impacts of a changing climate on agriculture, but the majority of these are presented from an ecological point of view, and scant information is available on specific species in agricultural applications. This paper provides an overview of impacts of climate change on two staple crops, wheat and rice. First, the direct effects of climate change on crop growth, yield formation, and geographic distribution of wheat and rice are reviewed. Then, the effects of climate change on pests and pathogens related with wheat and rice, and their interactions with the crops are summarized. Finally, potential management strategies to mitigate the direct impacts of climate change on crops, and the indirect impacts on crops through pests and pathogens are outlined. The present overview aims to aid agriculture practitioners and researchers who are interested in wheat and rice to better understand climate change related impacts on the target species. (c) The Author(s) 2021. Published by Higher Education Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)

Keywords

climate change; pest; pathogen; food security

Published in

Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
2022, Volume: 9, number: 1, pages: 4-18
Publisher: HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS

SLU Authors

• Hof, Anouschka

  • Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Wageningen University

Associated SLU-program

SLU Plant Protection Network


UKÄ Subject classification

Climate Research
Agricultural Science


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2021432

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/123378