Jesse Tack

TL;DR: The findings provide opportunities for the international wheat breeding community to intensify research efforts to increase resistance to heat stress during focused developmental stages, and indicate that advancements in heat resistance could come at the expense of higher average yields.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed the use of moment functions and maximum entropy techniques as a flexible approach for estimating conditional crop yield distributions, which is easily estimated using standard econometric estimators.

TL;DR: The authors found that irrigation significantly reduces the negative impact of warming temperatures on winter wheat yields, while precipitation does not provide the same reduction in heat stress as irrigation, likely due to timing, intensity, and volume of water applications.

TL;DR: It is shown that sorghum productivity under increasing warming scenarios breaks down and points to two concerns regarding adaption to global warming, the first being that adaptation will not be as simple as producers’ switching among currently available cultivars and the second being that there is currently narrow genetic diversity for heat resilience in US breeding programs.

TL;DR: Temperature impacts on yields are estimated in extensive regression models, finding that extreme heat drives wheat yield losses, with an additional 24 h of exposure to temperatures above 30 °C associated with a 12.5% yield reduction.