Journal Article

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

Ullah, Sana, Shakoor, Awais, Shahzad, Aqeel, Mehmood, Tariq, Tufail, Muhammad Aammar, Dar, Afzal Ahmed, Sardar, Muhammad Fahad, Haris, Muhammad

2021

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Agriculture / Alkalinity / Aquatic Pollution / Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution / Biotechnology / Breeding / Cereal crops / climate / Climate Change / corn / Cotton / Crop improvement / Crops, Agricultural / Drought / Earth and Environmental Science / Ecotoxicology / Environment / Environmental Chemistry / Environmental Health / Environmental impact / Environmental science / Food / Food consumption / Food security / Food waste / genes / Genetic engineering / genetically modified organisms / Innovations / Insects / introgression / Malnutrition / Pests / Plant Breeding / Plant communities / Pollinators / Post-harvest decay / rain / Rainfall / Review Article / rice / salinity / Soil / Stresses / Sugarcane / temperature / Transgenic plants / Waste Water Technology / Water Management / Water Pollution Control / Waterlogging / weeds / wheat