Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Silver lining to a climate crisis in multiple prospects for alleviating crop waterlogging under future climates

  • Ke Liu,
  • Matthew Tom Harrison,
  • Haoliang Yan,
  • De Li Liu,
  • Holger Meinke,
  • Gerrit Hoogenboom,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Bin Peng,
  • Kaiyu Guan,
  • Jonas Jaegermeyr,
  • Enli Wang,
  • Feng Zhang,
  • Xiaogang Yin,
  • Sotirios Archontoulis,
  • Lixiao Nie,
  • Ana Badea,
  • Jianguo Man,
  • Daniel Wallach,
  • Jin Zhao,
  • Ana Borrego Benjumea,
  • Shah Fahad,
  • Xiaohai Tian,
  • Weilu Wang,
  • Fulu Tao,
  • Zhao Zhang,
  • Reimund Rötter,
  • Youlu Yuan,
  • Min Zhu,
  • Panhong Dai,
  • Jiangwen Nie,
  • Yadong Yang,
  • Yunbo Zhang,
  • Meixue Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36129-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The climate crisis will increase the frequency of extreme weather events. Harrison et al. show that while global waterlogging-induced yield losses increase from 3–11% historically to 10–20% by 2080, adapting sowing periods and adopting waterlogging-tolerant genotypes can negate such yield losses.