Cited by 1,762Climate change impacts on agriculturePlant Stress Responses and ToleranceAgriculture and Biological Studies

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Impact of Climate Change on Crops Adaptation and Strategies to Tackle Its Outcome: A Review

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Abstract

Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects, as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse effects on the agriculture of a region. The land and its agriculture are being affected by climate changes in different ways, e.g., variations in annual rainfall, average temperature, heat waves, modifications in weeds, pests or microbes, global change of atmospheric CO2 or ozone level, and fluctuations in sea level. The threat of varying global climate has greatly driven the attention of scientists, as these variations are imparting negative impact on global crop production and compromising food security worldwide. According to some predicted reports, agriculture is considered the most endangered activity adversely affected by climate changes. To date, food security and ecosystem resilience are the most concerning subjects worldwide. Climate-smart agriculture is the only way to lower the negative impact of climate variations on crop adaptation, before it might affect global crop production drastically. In this review paper, we summarize the causes of climate change, stresses produced due to climate change, impacts on crops, modern breeding technologies, and biotechnological strategies to cope with climate change, in order to develop climate resilient crops. Revolutions in genetic engineering techniques can also aid in overcoming food security issues against extreme environmental conditions, by producing transgenic plants.

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TL;DR

This review synthesizes literature on how climate change drives abiotic and biotic stresses and reduces crop yields, and surveys adaptation strategies from cultural practices to genomics and genetic engineering. It concludes that climate-smart, stress-tolerant crops developed via breeding, GWAS/GS, transgenic transcription factors, and CRISPR/Cas9 are needed to protect food security.

Key findings

  • Climate change is linked to rising atmospheric CO2 (from 280 to 400 µmol−1, predicted up to 800 µmol−1 by century’s end) and an expected 2–4.5 °C increase in Earth’s average temperature in the 21st century; key stresses include drought, heat, salinity, flooding, and cold.
  • Yield impacts cited include climate changes reducing crop yield up to 70% since 1982 (Boyer); Zhao et al. (2017) reported reductions of 6% in wheat, 3.2% in rice, 3.1% in soybean, and 7.4% in maize. The review also cites wheat yield declining 6% per °C rise, maize 8.3% per °C, rice 2.6% per °C, and sorghum 7.8% per °C.
  • Food-security figures cited include around 815 million people affected by malnutrition, a population expected to reach about 9 billion by 2050 with food requirements rising about 85%, and a projected 25.7% reduction in agricultural production by 2080, with maize the most affected crop in Mexico.
  • Adaptation strategies reviewed include cultural methods (sowing time, crop rotation, irrigation), conventional breeding, MAS/QTL mapping, GWAS, genomic selection, and genetic engineering of DREB, ERF, MYB, WRKY, and NAC transcription factors; CRISPR/Cas9 examples include rice seed size increased by 30% via TGW6/GW5/GW2 mutation, low-gluten wheat, SlMAPK3 tomato drought studies, and OsAnn3 rice cold-tolerance work.

Methods

  • Narrative review; no primary data collection, systematic search strategy, or meta-analysis is described. It synthesizes cited literature on climate change causes, plant stresses, crop impacts, and adaptation/biotechnological strategies.
  • Main analysis is qualitative: it describes mechanisms such as ROS production, Rubisco disruption, and hormone signaling (ABA, salicylic acid, ethylene), and reviews breeding, genomic, transgenic, and CRISPR examples from other studies.
  • Figures and tables are referenced but not reproduced in the text; the review reports no sample size or statistical model of its own.

Limitations

  • Stated: the paper says how to tackle the problem and which strategies to apply are “still ambiguous,” and future food-security studies need to integrate climate change, crop productivity, water supply, and population.
  • Evident: as a narrative review, it lacks systematic inclusion criteria, quantitative synthesis, and primary experimental validation; many yield and climate projections are cited from secondary sources and are not independently assessed.
  • Evident: no own data or statistical analysis is presented; conclusions rely on cited literature and selected examples.

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Registry

Crossref · 10.3390/plants8020034

Cites

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    Climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses that adversely affect agriculture.

    “Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects, as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse effects on the agriculture of a region.”
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    Agriculture is the most endangered activity adversely affected by climate changes.

    “According to some predicted reports, agriculture is considered the most endangered activity adversely affected by climate changes.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Climate-smart agriculture is the only way to lower the negative impact of climate variations on crop adaptation.

    “Climate-smart agriculture is the only way to lower the negative impact of climate variations on crop adaptation, before it might affect global crop production drastically.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Climate change and food insecurity are the two major issues of the 21st century.

    “Climate change and food insecurity are the two major issues of the 21st century.”
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    Global warming and climate change both have some negative and positive effects on agricultural crops as well as on humans.

    “Overall, global warming and climate change both have some negative and positive effects on agricultural crops as well as on humans as explained in Figure 4.”
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    Environmental variation has a long-lasting influence on agriculture and food security globally.

    “Variation in the environment has a long-lasting influence on agriculture and food security globally.”
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    Food security and safety are threatened by severe weather conditions.

    “Food security and safety are threatened by the severe weather conditions and it is not a recent problem.”
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    Formerly, no consideration was adopted to tackle the problem of weather variations.

    “But formerly, no consideration was adopted to tackle this problem.”
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    The strategies to tackle climate change's impact on agriculture are still ambiguous.

    “How to tackle this problem and what strategies we should apply are still ambiguous.”
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  • OsAnn3 knockout is said to increase and decrease cold tolerance

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Research works printed but not linked: 8

  1. Khan, 2016, Climate Change Implications for Wheat Crop in Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pak. J. Meteorol., 13, 17
  2. Reckling, 2018, Grain legume yield instability has increased over 60 years in long-term field experiments as measured by a scale-adjusted coefficient of variation, Asp. Appl. Biol., 138, 15
  3. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2007). Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Cambridge University Press. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  4. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2000). Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, Cambridge University Press. A Special Report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
  5. Khan, 2017, Effect of Various Temperatures and Duration on Deterioration of Rice Seeds, Science, 36, 79
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  8. Riechmann, 1998, The AP2/EREBP family of plant transcription factors, Biol. Chem., 379, 633

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Metadata

Authors
Raza, A., Razzaq, A., Mehmood, S. S., Zou, X., Zhang, X., Lv, Y., & Xu, J.
Affiliations
  • Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CN)
  • University of Agriculture Faisalabad (PK)
Corresponding author
  • Raza, Ali
  • Zou, Xiling
  • Zhang, Xuekun
Venue
Plants
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2019-01-30
Volume
8
Issue
2
Pages
34
ISSN
2223-7747 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2913631090
Cited by
1,762
References
253
Citations by year
2026: 144 · 2025: 250 · 2024: 344 · 2023: 349 · 2022: 293 · 2021: 251 · 2020: 116 · 2019: 13
FWCI
18.62
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Plants (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
National Basic Research Program of China (2017YFD0101701) and Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of CAAS. (2017YFD0101701)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture and Biological Studies
Keywords
climate change impacts on crops, crop adaptation, climate-smart agriculture, food security, climate-resilient crops, abiotic stress, biotic stress, heat waves, genetic engineering, transgenic plants, ecosystem resilience

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