Sammanfattning

The five Nordic countries span the most northern region for field cultivation in the world. This presents challenges per se, with short growing seasons, long days, and a need for frost tolerance. Climate change has additionally increased risks for micro-droughts and water logging, as well as pathogens and pests expanding northwards. Thus, Nordic agriculture demands crops that are adapted to the specific Nordic growth conditions and future climate scenarios. A focus on crop varieties and traits important to Nordic agriculture, including the unique resource of nutritious wild crops, can meet these needs. In fact, with a future longer growing season due to climate change, the region could contribute proportionally more to global agricultural production. This also applies to other northern regions, including the Arctic. To address current growth conditions, mitigate impacts of climate change, and meet market demands, the adaptive capacity of crops that both perform well in northern latitudes and are more climate resilient has to be increased, and better crop management systems need to be built. This requires functional phenomics approaches that integrate versatile high-throughput phenotyping, physiology, and bioinformatics. This review stresses key target traits, the opportunities of latitudinal studies, and infrastructure needs for phenotyping to support Nordic agriculture.

Nyckelord

Arctic; climate change; crop phenotyping; functional phenomics; Nordic agriculture; wild crops

Publicerad i

Journal of Experimental Botany
2022,
Utgivare: OXFORD UNIV PRESS

SLU författare

• Chawade, Aakash

  • Institutionen för växtförädling, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Nehe, Ajit

  • Institutionen för växtförädling, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Alexandersson, Erik

  • Institutionen för växtskyddsbiologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

SLU Nätverk växtskydd


Globala målen

Vidta omedelbara åtgärder för att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och dess konsekvenser
Avskaffa hunger, uppnå tryggad livsmedelsförsörjning och förbättrad nutrition samt främja ett hållbart jordbruk


UKÄ forskningsämne

Klimatforskning
Jordbruksvetenskap


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac246

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/118606