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Nexus on climate change: agriculture and possible solution to cope future climate change stresses

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 12, Pages 14211-14232

Publisher

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-12649-8

Keywords

Biotic; abiotic stresses on agriculture; Climate change; Threat and impact of climate change on agriculture; Food security; Use of biotechnology and genetic engineering in crop improvement; Resilience in agriculture; Ideotype breeding; Climate-smart breeding; CFF

Funding

  1. Institute of Plant breeding and genetics, University of Agriculture, Pakistan
  2. Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, China

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The changing climate scenarios exacerbate biotic and abiotic stresses on plants, impacting food security and potentially leading to malnutrition. Research focuses on the effects of climate change on crops, strategic work to limit crucial factors, enhancing food security, and the role of biotechnology and genetic engineering in addressing climate change. Adoption of measures to evolve crops is crucial in light of predictions about future impacts of climate change on agriculture.
The changing climate scenarios harshen the biotic stresses including boosting up the population of insect/pest and disease, uplifting weed growth, declining soil beneficial microbes, threaten pollinator, and boosting up abiotic stresses including harsh drought/waterlogging, extremisms in temperature, salinity/alkalinity, abrupt rainfall pattern)) and ulitamtely affect the plant in multiple ways. This nexus review paper will cover four significant points viz (1) the possible impacts of climate change; as the world already facing the problem of food security, in such crucial period, climatic change severely affects all four dimensions of food security (from production to consumption) and will lead to malnutrition/malnourishment faced by low-income peoples. (2) How some major crops (wheat, cotton, rice, maize, and sugarcane) are affected by stress and their consequent loss. (3) How to develop a strategic work to limit crucial factors, like their significant role in climate-smart breeding, developing resilience to stresses, and idiotypic breeding. Additionally, there is an essence of improving food security, as much of our food is wasted before consumption for instance post-harvest losses. (4) Role of biotechnology and genetic engineering in adaptive introgression of the gene or developing plant transgenic against pests. As millions of dollars are invested in innovation and research to cope with future climate change stresses on a plant, hence community base adaptation of innovation is also considered an important factor in crop improvements. Because of such crucial predictions about the future impacts of climate change on agriculture, we must adopt measures to evolve crop.

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