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Prediction of near-term climate change impacts on UK wheat quality and the potential for adaptation through plant breeding

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GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16552

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adaptation; climate change impacts; genomic prediction; grain quality; wheat breeding

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  1. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/M011194/1]
  2. Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
  3. British Society of Plant Breeders Limited

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Wheat, a major global crop, is highly valued for its grain quality. This study used quantitative genetics and climate model outputs to investigate genotypic adaptation for wheat quality traits in the UK. The research found that the impact of climate change on wheat quality varies geographically and current wheat germplasm in the UK has low adaptability to future climates.
Wheat is a major crop worldwide, mainly cultivated for human consumption and animal feed. Grain quality is paramount in determining its value and downstream use. While we know that climate change threatens global crop yields, a better understanding of impacts on wheat end-use quality is also critical. Combining quantitative genetics with climate model outputs, we investigated UK-wide trends in genotypic adaptation for wheat quality traits. In our approach, we augmented genomic prediction models with environmental characterisation of field trials to predict trait values and climate effects in historical field trial data between 2001 and 2020. Addition of environmental covariates, such as temperature and rainfall, successfully enabled prediction of genotype by environment interactions (G x E), and increased prediction accuracy of most traits for new genotypes in new year cross validation. We then extended predictions from these models to much larger numbers of simulated environments using climate scenarios projected under Representative Concentration Pathways 8.5 for 2050-2069. We found geographically varying climate change impacts on wheat quality due to contrasting associations between specific weather covariables and quality traits across the UK. Notably, negative impacts on quality traits were predicted in the East of the UK due to increased summer temperatures while the climate in the North and South-west may become more favourable with increased summer temperatures. Furthermore, by projecting 167,040 simulated future genotype-environment combinations, we found only limited potential for breeding to exploit predictable G x E to mitigate year-to-year environmental variability for most traits except Hagberg falling number. This suggests low adaptability of current UK wheat germplasm across future UK climates. More generally, approaches demonstrated here will be critical to enable adaptation of global crops to near-term climate change.

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