Original title: Impact of Climate Change on Crops Adaptation and Strategies to Tackle Its Outcome: A Review
Climate change can stress crops through shifts in rainfall and temperature, heat waves, changing pests and microbes, and changes in atmospheric gases or sea level. These stresses can harm crop production and threaten food security. The review surveys crop impacts and approaches for building resilience, including modern breeding and biotechnology. It also discusses genetic engineering to produce plants that can tolerate extreme environmental conditions.
Imagine packing for a trip when the weather keeps changing. A bag ready for a cool, dry day may not work when rain, heat, or insects arrive instead. In this paper, the changing weather and other pressures are the trip’s shifting conditions, and breeding or altering crops is a way to help them cope.
Farmers and communities that depend on crops face risks from shifting weather and changing pests or microbes. This review describes ways to develop crops that can better withstand these pressures, with food security and ecosystem resilience at stake.
The abstract describes the review's topics but gives no specific evidence comparing the strategies, no measured effects on crop yields, and no details about which crops or regions benefit most. It does not establish that any single approach will prevent food-security problems.
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Impact of Climate Change on Crops Adaptation and Strategies to Tackle Its Outcome: A Review — Ali Raza, Ali Razzaq, Sundas Saher Mehmood et al. — Plants — doi:10.3390/plants8020034
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