Climate change is coming for kūmara/sweet potatoes
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Global warming is predicted to threaten kūmara (sweet potato) - one of the world’s most important food crops. Peruvian researchers tested nearly 2,000 sweet potato strains, finding just 6.7 per cent are heat-tolerant. They suggest these varieties could be used in breeding programmes to help crops adapt to predicted temperature increases of 1-6°C by 2070.
Journal/conference: Nature Climate Change
Link to research (DOI): 10.1038/s41558-020-00924-4
Organisation/s: International Potato Center, Peru
Funder: This research was undertaken as part of, and funded by, the CGIAR Research Program
on Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) and supported by CGIAR Fund Donors. We thank
all donors who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Fund:
http://www.cgiar.org/about-us/our-funders/. The financial support by the McKnight
Foundation to Q.S. is greatly appreciated.
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