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Field Crops and Climate Change

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Production of crops and climatic changes are internally linked with each other in several features because changes in climatic conditions are the key reason for abiotic as well as biotic stresses, that have adversative influences on the farming systems at local, regional, and global levels. The yields of major agronomic crops are being negatively impacted by climatic changes in several aspects like disparities in rainfall pattern and intensity, mean temperature, heat waves, changes in weeds infestation, disease causing microorganisms, and pest attack during all growing seasons in major cropping systems. Heat and water shortage stress disturb the crop yield in various ways as response of crop towards these impacts of climatic variables vary. Higher temperature frequently causes a reduction in crop production by reason of the fact that, they generally happen in combination with drought. Crop phenology is negatively affected due to climate change. Yield and yield components are more sensitive under drought condition in comparison to higher temperature in all cropping systems. In this chapter, we summarize the impact of climate change and stresses produced due to climate change on crop production.

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  1. Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

    Zartash Fatima, Sahrish Naz, Ghulam Abbas & Shakeel Ahmad

  2. Department of Botany, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Pakeeza Iqbal

  3. Department of Agronomy, University College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan

    Amna Khan

  4. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

    Haseeb Ullah

  5. Department of Agronomy, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Mukhtar Ahmed

  6. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari, Pakistan

    Muhammad Mubeen

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  1. Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Bahawalpur, Pakistan

    Wajid Nasim Jatoi

  2. Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus, Pakistan

    Muhammad Mubeen

  3. Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand

    Ashfaq Ahmad

  4. Boreal Ecosystem and Agricultural Sciences, School of Science and the Environment, Memorial University-Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook, NL, Canada

    Mumtaz Akhtar Cheema

  5. International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Zhaohui Lin

  6. Department of Chemistry, COMSATS University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

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Fatima, Z. et al. (2022). Field Crops and Climate Change. In: Jatoi, W.N., Mubeen, M., Ahmad, A., Cheema, M.A., Lin, Z., Hashmi, M.Z. (eds) Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79408-8_6

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