Integrating pests and pathogens into the climate change/food security debate
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...The potential influence of pests and diseases is commonly beyond the scope of such studies (Gregory et al., 2009)....
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...This may be through impacts of warming or drought on the resistance of crops to specific diseases and through the increased pathogenicity of organisms by mutation induced by environmental stress (Gregory et al. 2009)....
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..., 2004), the associated effects of higher temperatures and altered patterns of precipitation will probably combine to reduce yields (Easterling et al., 2007)....
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...In particular, food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa will be increased by climate change although the size of the effect is affected more by socio-economic factors than by climate change per se (Easterling et al., 2007)....
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...…that while many crops may respond positively to increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations in the absence of climate changes (Long et al., 2004), the associated effects of higher temperatures and altered patterns of precipitation will probably combine to reduce yields (Easterling et al., 2007)....
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...Overall, the results of this and subsequent work demonstrated that climate change would benefit the cereal production of developed countries more than the developing countries, even if cropping practices evolved to allow more than one rainfed crop per year (Fischer et al., 2002, 2005)....
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...Fischer G, Shah M, van Velthuizen H. 2002....
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...Expression of resistance to broomrape in sunflower (Eizenberg et al., 2003), black shank resistance in tobacco (Sanden and Moore, 1978) and rice resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Webb et al. in Garrett et al., 2006) provide other examples of temperature sensitivity....
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...…Phytophthora infestans have been observed to generate very high levels of variability and Newton (1988) suggested that the mechanisms described facilitated mutant instability as a means of generating enhanced levels of variation for adaptation without disadvantageous mutation load (Newton, 1988)....
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