Global Climate Change and Crop Production

Year 2023, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 65 - 78, 30.12.2023

Meliha Feryal Sarıkaya , Muhammed Tatar

Abstract

Uncontrolled emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants due to industrialisation and land use change are causing global warming and climate change. Elevated CO2 triggers global warming by absorbing infrared radiation and warming the Earth's atmosphere. Increased CO2 and higher temperatures interact with C3 and C4 plants and affect plant growth and productivity through changes in various physiological and biochemical processes. Photosynthesis is affected by various physiological mechanism such as photorespiration, stomatal conductance, water use efficiency, transpiration and phenological processes. Therefore, it is expected that reduced crop quality and productivity would be a challenge in terms of food security for future generations. For this reason, it is necessary to develop adaptation strategies to ensure sustainable agricultural production. Thus, improving plants adaptation ability to environmental and geographical conditions is now an important issue to preclude reduced crop quality and yield loss. This reviews examines the physiological effects of global climate change on plants and determines the measures that can be taken for this situation.

Keywords

Global warming, C3 and C4 plants, crop productivity

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