Diverging importance of drought stress for maize and winter wheat in Europe

Webber, Heidi; Ewert, Frank; Olesen, Jørgen E.; Müller, Christoph; Fronzek, Stefan; Ruane, Alex C.; Bourgault, Maryse; Martre, Pierre; Ababaei, Behnam; Bindi, Marco; Ferrise, Roberto; Finger, Robert; Fodor, Nándor; Gabaldón-Leal, Clara; Gaiser, Thomas; Jabloun, Mohamed; Kersebaum, Kurt Christian; Lizaso, Jon; Lorite, Ignacio J.; Manceau, Loïc; Moriondo, Marco; Nendel, Claas; Rodríguez, Alfredo; Ruiz‐Ramos, Margarita; Semenov, Mikhail A.; Siebert, Stefan; Stella, Tommaso; Stratonovitch, Pierre; Trombi, Giacomo; Wallach, Daniel

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“…Negative effects of the projected increase in extremes might be only partially limited by shorter phenological cycles, new varieties, and fertilization effects of increased atmospheric CO 2 concentration (Challinor et al, ; Kimball, ; Obermeier et al, ; Parkes et al, ; Rezaei, Siebert, Hüging, et al, ; Trnka et al, ). Crops, such as maize, could be more affected by projected increases in severe drought events (Webber et al, ; Zampieri et al, ), and as seen in 2018, the livestock sector will also be negatively impacted due to the lack of fodder crops. Besides the local impacts, it will be important to define strategies to limit the propagating effects of economic shocks induced by these extremes at the European level.…”

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“…Climate change poses particular challenges for agricultural production systems as plant growth is affected by climate conditions (e.g., Gray & Brady, 2016;Lobell & Gourdji, 2012;Porter & Semenov, 2005). Rising temperatures, changes in precipitation regimes, and increasing frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme events negatively affect crop yields and fodder production (e.g., Asseng et al, 2014;Toreti, Bassu, et al, 2019;Webber et al, 2018;Zhao et al, 2017). The adverse impacts of climate extremes on the main crops in the last decades have been addressed in numerous studies (e.g., Deryng et al, 2014;Fontana et al, 2015;Lesk et al, 2016;Rezaei, Siebert, Manderscheid, et al, 2018;Zampieri et al, 2017).…”

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The Exceptional 2018 European Water Seesaw Calls for Action on Adaptation

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Temperature and precipitation are the most important factors responsible for agricultural productivity variations. In 2018 spring/summer growing season, Europe experienced concurrent anomalies of both. Drought conditions in central and northern Europe caused yield reductions up to 50% for the main crops, yet wet conditions in southern Europe saw yield gains up to 34%, both with respect to the previous 5‐year mean. Based on the analysis of documentary and natural proxy‐based seasonal paleoclimate reconstructions for the past half millennium, we show that the 2018 combination of climatic anomalies in Europe was unique. The water seesaw, a marked dipole of negative water anomalies in central Europe and positive ones in southern Europe, distinguished 2018 from the five previous similar droughts since 1976. Model simulations reproduce the 2018 European water seesaw in only 4 years out of 875 years in historical runs and projections. Future projections under the RCP8.5 scenario show that 2018‐like temperature and rainfall conditions, favorable to crop growth, will occur less frequent in southern Europe. In contrast, in central Europe high‐end emission scenario climate projections show that droughts as intense as 2018 could become a common occurrence as early as 2043. While integrated European and global agricultural markets limited agro‐economic shocks caused by 2018's extremes, there is an urgent need for adaptation strategies for European agriculture to consider futures without the benefits of any water seesaw.

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“…The world population will reach to about 10 billion in 2050, setting a food security for feeding (https://population.un.org/wpp/). However, environmental stresses, particularly drought, negatively affect plant growth and productivity worldwide, caused significant yield losses of crops, including maize (Gong et al 2014;Hossain et al 2015;Webber et al 2018). To cope with environmental stimuli, plants activate multiple adaptive mechanisms from plant growth and development to stress responses (Mochida et al 2015).…”

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Copper nanoparticle application enhances plant growth and grain yield in maize under drought stress conditions

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Abiotic stresses, including drought, detrimentally affect the growth and productivity of many economically important crop plants, leading to significant yield losses, which can result in food shortages and threaten the sustainability of agriculture. Balancing between plant growth and stress responses is one of the most important characters for agricultural application to maximize plant production. In this study, we initially report that copper nanoparticle priming positively regulates drought stress responses in maize. The copper nanoparticle priming plants displayed enhanced drought tolerance indicated by their higher leaf water content and plant biomass under drought as compared with water-treated plants. Moreover, our data showed that the treatment of copper nanoparticle on plants increased anthocyanin, chlorophyll and carotenoid contents compared to water-treated plants under drought stress conditions. Additionally, histochemical analyses with nitro blue tetrazolium and 3,3'-diaminobenzidine revealed that reactive oxygen species accumulation of priming plants was decreased as a result of enhancement of reactive oxygen species scavenging enzyme activities under drought. Furthermore, our comparative yield analysis data indicated applying copper nanoparticle to plant increased total seed number and grain yield under drought stress conditions. Our data provided the evidences that copper nanoparticle regulates plant protective mechanisms associated with drought tolerance, which is a promising approach for the production of drought tolerant crop plants.

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“…However, this is not the case for the Pannonian agro-climate zone, where a doubling of the share of area affected by heat stress is observed despite earlier flowering occurrence. Indeed, wheat grown in this agro-climate zone is more sensitive to heat stress during the flowering and grain filling than in other regions of Europe Webber et al, 2018). Furthermore, together with the increased area affected, the crop model simulations also indicate shorter periods of flowering time.…”

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Observed Northward Migration of Agro‐Climate Zones in Europe Will Further Accelerate Under Climate Change

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This study focuses on the northward shift of homogeneous agro-climate zones in Europe analyzed for the observed past and projected climate conditions for the next decades. Statistical cluster analysis is used to derive eight main agro-climatic zones driven by two agro-meteorological indicators, namely, active temperature sum and thermal growing season length. The northward shift of homogeneous agro-climate zones and the corresponding change of crop growth suitability are analyzed together with the change of exposure of crops to temperature-related climate extremes during the growing season. Gradual warming over Europe has contributed to a lengthening of the growing season and an increased active temperature accumulation, accompanied by more frequent occurrence of warm extreme climate events. Using a set of five high-resolution regional climate scenarios, we calculate that a major part of Europe will be affected by further northward climate zone migration. In the next decades, the migration of agro-climatic zones in Eastern Europe may reach twice the velocity observed during the period 1975-2016. Several regions of the Mediterranean may lose suitability to grow specific crops in favor of northern European regions. This indicator-based assessment suggests that the potential advantages of the lengthening of the thermal growing season in northern and eastern Europe are often outbalanced by the risk of late frost and increased risk of early spring and summer heat waves.

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Diverging importance of drought stress for maize and winter wheat in Europe

Cited by 275 publications

References 73 publications

The Exceptional 2018 European Water Seesaw Calls for Action on Adaptation

The Exceptional 2018 European Water Seesaw Calls for Action on Adaptation

Copper nanoparticle application enhances plant growth and grain yield in maize under drought stress conditions

Observed Northward Migration of Agro‐Climate Zones in Europe Will Further Accelerate Under Climate Change

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