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Growing risks of global wheat from snow droughts

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Climate change is increasing snow-drought frequency while heightening the vulnerability of major crops to water shortages.

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Fig. 1: Wheat under snow cover in the North China Plain.
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  1. Sanya Institute of Nanjing Agricultural University, National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, Engineering Research Center of Smart Agriculture, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory for Crop System Analysis and Decision Making, Ministry of Agriculture, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Crop Production, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, PR China

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Liu, B., Cao, W. & Zhu, Y. Growing risks of global wheat from snow droughts. Nat Food 7, 126–127 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-026-01310-7

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