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Novel Strategies for Designing Climate‐Smart Crops to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture and Future Food Security
Journal of sustainable agriculture and environment, Vol.4(2), e70048
2025
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Abstract
To fulfil food and nutritional demand for nine billion people by the mid‐21st century, global food production must increase by 60% regardless of challenges such as environmental pollution, water scarcity and land degradation. Climate change exacerbates the frequency and intensity of biotic and abiotic stresses, which, in turn, severely compromise global crop yields, jeopardize food supply, deteriorate sustainable development goals for achieving global food safety, and limit sustainable climate‐smart crop production. Current food production and consumption practices negatively influence the environment, posing a major threat to the global ecosystem and human health. Addressing these critical issues to achieve sustainable agriculture necessitates designing future crops employing cutting‐edge breeding strategies for enhanced productivity with minimal environmental footprints. This endeavour requires a comprehensive understanding of plant stress adaptation, signalling pathways and mitigation mechanisms. In this review, we first explain the diverse impacts of ongoing climate change events on crop production. Subsequently, we outline various strategies to tackle climate change, including agronomic practices, and advanced technologies for understanding the physiological and molecular mechanisms of plant stress tolerance. We also discuss breeding and engineering crops with superior stress tolerance and disease resistance and nurturing healthy microbial partnerships between plants and soil to ensure food and nutrition security for current and future populations amidst mounting environmental challenges.
Details
- Title
- Novel Strategies for Designing Climate‐Smart Crops to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture and Future Food Security
- Authors/Creators
- Ali Raza - Shenzhen UniversityTushar Khare - University of SharjahXinyue Zhang - Murdoch UniversityMd. Mezanur Rahman - Texas Tech UniversityMuzammil Hussain - Baise UniversitySarvajeet Singh Gill - Maharshi Dayanand UniversityZhong‐Hua Chen - Western Sydney UniversityMeixue Zhou - University of TasmaniaZhangli Hu - Shenzhen UniversityRajeev K. Varshney - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Journal of sustainable agriculture and environment, Vol.4(2), e70048
- Publisher
- Global Initiative of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 25
- Grant note
- National Natural Science Foundation of China: 32273118 Guangxi Major Programme for Science and Technology: GuikeAA24263042 Shenzhen Special Fund for Sustainable Development: KCXFZ20211020164013021 Guangdong Key RD Project: 2022B1111070005 Engineering Research Centre Support Programme from Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality: XMHT20220104019 Shenzhen University 2035 Programme for Excellent Research: 2022B010 Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and Hort Innovation for supporting R&D projects on wheat: UMU240-4003RTX, WSU230-3001RTX, UMU240-3009RTX, UMU230-3003RTX Food Futures Institute of Murdoch University, Australia: AS21006, AS23003
This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (32273118), Guangxi Major Programme for Science and Technology(GuikeAA24263042), Shenzhen Special Fund for Sustainable Development (KCXFZ20211020164013021), Guangdong Key R&D Project (2022B1111070005),The Engineering Research Centre Support Programme from Development and Reform Commission of Shenzhen Municipality (XMHT20220104019), and Shenzhen University 2035 Programme for Excellent Research (2022B010); Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and Hort Innovation for supporting R&D projects on wheat (UMU240-4003RTX, WSU230-3001RTX), legume (UMU240-3009RTX, UMU230-3003RTX) and horticultural crops(AS21006, AS23003), and the Food Futures Institute of Murdoch University, Australia.
- Identifiers
- 991005762533207891
- Copyright
- © 2025 The Author(s).
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Food Futures Institute
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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