Effect of environmental changes on vegetable and legume yields and nutritional quality.

ABSTRACT: Environmental changes threaten agricultural production, food security, and health. Previous reviews suggest that environmental changes will substantially affect future yields of starchy dietary staples. To date, no comprehensive global analysis of the impacts of environmental change on (nonstaple) vegetables and legumes-important constituents of healthy diets-has been reported. We systematically searched for articles published between 1975 and 2016 on the effects of ambient temperature, tropospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂), and ozone (O₃) concentrations, water availability, and salinization on yields and nutritional quality of vegetables and legumes. We estimated mean effects of standardized environmental changes using observed exposure-response relationships and conduct

SUBMITTER: Scheelbeek PFD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042093 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature