Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates
Summary Societal Impact Statement Climate change continues to intensify the challenges of food production as agricultural systems face more variable and extreme weather. Coupled with increasing human population, growers must balance increasing crop yields with nutrient content to prevent global maln...
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| description | Summary Societal Impact Statement Climate change continues to intensify the challenges of food production as agricultural systems face more variable and extreme weather. Coupled with increasing human population, growers must balance increasing crop yields with nutrient content to prevent global malnutrition. Photosynthetic diversity may permit some crops to tolerate climate change and elevated CO2 whilst maintaining both crop yield quantity and quality. This review examines how photosynthetic diversity interacts with crop production and nutritional stability under elevated CO2 and climate change, and highlights opportunities for photosynthetic diversity to inspire agricultural solutions. Summary Innovative agricultural solutions are desperately needed to achieve food security for a growing human population amidst the imminent pressures of climate change that threaten more variable and extreme weather, placing additional pressures on already precarious agricultural systems. Not only are crop yields at risk under climate change but rising global atmospheric CO2 concentrations are concurrently driving a carbon dilution effect that threatens to reduce the nutritional quality of our crops to further global malnutrition. Plants using different photosynthetic metabolisms, however, experience these negative impacts to yield and nutrition to different degrees. Thus, photosynthetic diversity may offer solutions to combat malnutrition under climate change and elevated CO2 concentrations, whether that be through targeting existing resilient species for agricultural programmes or applying agricultural biotechnology to engineer photosynthetic diversity into existing crops. Here, we discuss how each major photosynthetic type is predicted to fare under elevated CO2 concentrations and climate change and explore agricultural opportunities to maintain both yield and nutrient stability. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-35673ccf323c4c4686abf2eb30dc09a92025-08-20T02:10:32ZengWileyPlants, People, Planet2572-26112024-11-01661272128310.1002/ppp3.10544Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climatesCatherine A. Walsh0Marjorie R. Lundgren1Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YQ UKLancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YQ UKSummary Societal Impact Statement Climate change continues to intensify the challenges of food production as agricultural systems face more variable and extreme weather. Coupled with increasing human population, growers must balance increasing crop yields with nutrient content to prevent global malnutrition. Photosynthetic diversity may permit some crops to tolerate climate change and elevated CO2 whilst maintaining both crop yield quantity and quality. This review examines how photosynthetic diversity interacts with crop production and nutritional stability under elevated CO2 and climate change, and highlights opportunities for photosynthetic diversity to inspire agricultural solutions. Summary Innovative agricultural solutions are desperately needed to achieve food security for a growing human population amidst the imminent pressures of climate change that threaten more variable and extreme weather, placing additional pressures on already precarious agricultural systems. Not only are crop yields at risk under climate change but rising global atmospheric CO2 concentrations are concurrently driving a carbon dilution effect that threatens to reduce the nutritional quality of our crops to further global malnutrition. Plants using different photosynthetic metabolisms, however, experience these negative impacts to yield and nutrition to different degrees. Thus, photosynthetic diversity may offer solutions to combat malnutrition under climate change and elevated CO2 concentrations, whether that be through targeting existing resilient species for agricultural programmes or applying agricultural biotechnology to engineer photosynthetic diversity into existing crops. Here, we discuss how each major photosynthetic type is predicted to fare under elevated CO2 concentrations and climate change and explore agricultural opportunities to maintain both yield and nutrient stability.https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10544agricultural biotechnologyC2 photosynthesisC3‐C4 intermediatesC4 photosynthesisCAMclimate change |
| spellingShingle | Catherine A. Walsh Marjorie R. Lundgren Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates Plants, People, Planet agricultural biotechnology C2 photosynthesis C3‐C4 intermediates C4 photosynthesis CAM climate change |
| title | Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates |
| title_full | Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates |
| title_fullStr | Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates |
| title_short | Nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates |
| title_sort | nutritional quality of photosynthetically diverse crops under future climates |
| topic | agricultural biotechnology C2 photosynthesis C3‐C4 intermediates C4 photosynthesis CAM climate change |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10544 |
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