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

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Liu, Ke, Harrison, Matthew Tom, Yan, Haoliang, Liu, De Li, Meinke, Holger, Hoogenboom, Gerrit, Wang, Bin, Peng, Bin +25 more·2023·Nature Communications

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Extreme weather events threaten food security, yet global assessments of impacts caused by crop waterlogging are rare. Here we first develop a paradigm that distils common stress patterns across environments, genotypes and climate horizons. Second, we embed improved process-based understanding into a farming systems model to discern changes in global crop waterlogging under future climates. Third, we develop avenues for adapting cropping systems to waterlogging contextualised by environment. We find that yield penalties caused by waterlogging increase from 3–11% historically to 10–20% by 2080, with penalties reflecting a trade-off between the duration of waterlogging and the timing of waterlogging relative to crop stage. We document greater potential for waterlogging-tolerant genotypes in environments with longer temperate growing seasons (e.g., UK, France, Russia, China), compared with environments with higher annualised ratios of evapotranspiration to precipitation (e.g., Australia). Under future climates, altering sowing time and adoption of waterlogging-tolerant genotypes reduces yield penalties by 18%, while earlier sowing of winter genotypes alleviates waterlogging by 8%. We highlight the serendipitous outcome wherein waterlogging stress patterns under present conditions are likely to be similar to those in the future, suggesting that adaptations for future climates could be designed using stress patterns realised today.

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Liu, K., Harrison, M. T., Yan, H., Liu, D. L., Meinke, H., Hoogenboom, G., Wang, B., Peng, B., Guan, K., Jaegermeyr, J., Wang, E., Zhang, F., Yin, X., Archontoulis, S., Nie, L., Badea, A., Man, J., Wallach, D., Zhao, J., Benjumea, A. B., Fahad, S., Tian, X., Wang, W., Tao, F., Zhang, Z., Rötter, R., Yuan, Y., Zhu, M., Dai, P., Nie, J., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y., & Zhou, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Tasmania (AU)
  • New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (AU)
  • University of Florida (US)
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AU)
  • Lanzhou University (CN)
  • China Agricultural University (CN)
  • Iowa State University (US)
  • Hainan University (CN)
  • Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (CA)
  • Huazhong Agricultural University (CN)
  • Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
  • Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (PK)
  • Yangtze University (CN)
  • Yangzhou University (CN)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • Beijing Normal University (CN)
  • University of Göttingen (DE)
  • Anyang Institute of Technology (CN)
Corresponding author
Harrison, Matthew Tom
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2023-02-10
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
765-765
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4319915600
Cited by
252
References
79
Citations by year
2026: 44 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 78 · 2023: 71
FWCI
39.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • HAL (submittedVersion, cc-by)
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  • GoeScholar The Publication Server of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Greater South Information System
Funders
Grains Research and Development Corporation (UOT1906-002RTX)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant responses to water stress
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Irrigation Practices and Water Management
Keywords
climate change impacts on crops, yield penalty, sowing date, growing season length, extreme weather events, food security
MeSH terms
Acclimatization, Adaptation, Physiological, Agriculture, Seasons, Water

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