Gen Sakurai

TL;DR: A global map of the impacts of ENSO on the yields of major crops and its impacts on their global-mean yield anomalies is presented to highlight the importance of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation to global crop production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the simulation results of 14 global gridded crop modeling groups that have contributed historic crop yield simulations for maize, wheat, rice and soybean to the Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI) of the AgMIP.

TL;DR: A majority of models underestimate the extremeness of impacts in important sectors such as agriculture, terrestrial ecosystems, and heat-related human mortality, while impacts on water resources and hydropower are overestimated in some river basins; and the spread across models is often large.

TL;DR: It is found that hyperaccumulation of Si in the husk (more than 10%) is achieved by cooperation of three different Si transporters localized at the different cell layers in the node, and mathematical modeling showed that an apoplastic barrier and development of enlarged vascular bundles are also required.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a global assessment of the reliability of crop failure hindcasts for major crops at two lead times derived by linking ensemble seasonal climatic forecasts with statistical crop models.