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Will yield gains be lost to disease?

Nature Climate Change volume 11, pages 648–649 (2021)Cite this article

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Climate change is having a profound impact on modern agriculture and plant health. Now research suggests that while crop yields may increase at high latitudes in light of climate change, these gains could be severely impacted by parallel shifts in disease risk.

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Fig. 1: Barley displaying symptoms typical of stem rust (Puccinia graminis) infection, identified in the UK in 2019.

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