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Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The most fundamental activity of the people of Bangladesh is agriculture. Modelling projections for Bangladesh indicate that warmer temperatures linked to climate change will severely reduce the growth of various winter crops (wheat, boro rice, potato and winter vegetables) in t...
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2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3540706/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23304431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/pls042 |
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author | Hossain, Akbar Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The most fundamental activity of the people of Bangladesh is agriculture. Modelling projections for Bangladesh indicate that warmer temperatures linked to climate change will severely reduce the growth of various winter crops (wheat, boro rice, potato and winter vegetables) in the north and central parts. In summer, crops in south-eastern parts of the country are at risk from increased flooding as sea levels increase. KEY FACTS: Wheat is one of the most important winter crops and is temperature sensitive and the second most important grain crop after rice. In this review, we provide an up-to-date and detailed account of wheat research of Bangladesh and the impact that global warming may have on agriculture, especially wheat production. Although flooding is not of major importance or consequence to the wheat crop at present, some perspectives are provided on this stress since wheat is flood sensitive and the incidence of flooding is likely to increase. PROJECTIONS: This information and projections will allow wheat breeders to devise new breeding programmes to attempt to mitigate future global warming. We discuss what this implies for food security in the broader context of South Asia. |
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spelling | pubmed-35407062013-01-09 Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming Hossain, Akbar Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. AoB Plants Reviews BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The most fundamental activity of the people of Bangladesh is agriculture. Modelling projections for Bangladesh indicate that warmer temperatures linked to climate change will severely reduce the growth of various winter crops (wheat, boro rice, potato and winter vegetables) in the north and central parts. In summer, crops in south-eastern parts of the country are at risk from increased flooding as sea levels increase. KEY FACTS: Wheat is one of the most important winter crops and is temperature sensitive and the second most important grain crop after rice. In this review, we provide an up-to-date and detailed account of wheat research of Bangladesh and the impact that global warming may have on agriculture, especially wheat production. Although flooding is not of major importance or consequence to the wheat crop at present, some perspectives are provided on this stress since wheat is flood sensitive and the incidence of flooding is likely to increase. PROJECTIONS: This information and projections will allow wheat breeders to devise new breeding programmes to attempt to mitigate future global warming. We discuss what this implies for food security in the broader context of South Asia. Oxford University Press 2012-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3540706/ /pubmed/23304431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/pls042 Text en Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Reviews Hossain, Akbar Teixeira da Silva, Jaime A. Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming |
title | Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming |
title_full | Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming |
title_fullStr | Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming |
title_full_unstemmed | Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming |
title_short | Wheat production in Bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming |
title_sort | wheat production in bangladesh: its future in the light of global warming |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3540706/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23304431 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/pls042 |
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