Current warming will reduce yields unless maize breeding and seed systems adapt immediately

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 954-958

  Challinor, A J ^a,b   Koehler, A K ^a   Ramirez Villegas, J ^a,b   Whitfield, S ^a   Das, B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)   (Colombia)

^c International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre CIMMYT   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CAPACITY BUILDING; CLIMATE MODELING; CROP YIELD; FOOD PRODUCTION; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MAIZE; SEED; SELECTIVE BREEDING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WARMING;

AFRICA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84989181891     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3061     Document Type: Article

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