Fig. 2: Time to closure of yield gaps based on linear extrapolation of trends from circa 2000 to circa 2010 for maize, rice, wheat and soybean. | Nature Food

Fig. 2: Time to closure of yield gaps based on linear extrapolation of trends from circa 2000 to circa 2010 for maize, rice, wheat and soybean.

From: Global spatially explicit yield gap time trends reveal regions at risk of future crop yield stagnation

Fig. 2

Yield gap closure time is defined as the crossing point of the linear trend of attainable yield and the linear trend of actual yield relative to 2010. ‘No trend’ indicates that no yield gap closure occurs within 95th percentile confidence intervals. ‘Widen’ indicates that yield ceiling and linear trend are significantly diverging (that is, the crossing point is before 2010). See Supplementary Fig. 3 for other crops.

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