Climate change is having a profound impact on modern agriculture and plant health. Now research suggests that while crop yields may increase at high latitudes in light of climate change, these gains could be severely impacted by parallel shifts in disease risk.
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Saunders, D.G.O. Will yield gains be lost to disease?. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 648–649 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01106-6
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