Maladaptation in cereal crop landraces following a soot-producing climate catastrophe
Chloee M. McLaughlin,
Yuning Shi,
Vishnu Viswanathan
et al.
Abstract:Soot-producing global catastrophes such as nuclear war, super volcano eruption, or asteroid strike, although rare, pose a serious threat to human survival. Light-blocking aerosols would sharply reduce solar radiation and temperatures, decreasing crop productivity including for locally-adapted traditional crop varieties, i.e. landraces. Here, we test post-catastrophic climate impacts on four crops with extensive landrace cultivation: barley, maize, rice, sorghum, under a range of nuclear war scenarios. We used … Show more
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