Winter wheat in a warming world

Climate change is warming winters and changing precipitation patterns. How will these changes impact winter wheat, one of the most important food crops grown in the US? An international team, including SWAC faculty member Dr. David Mulla, modeled the complex interactions of temperature, snowpack, and rainfall on winter wheat. “There might be risks for being overoptimistic about growing overwinter crops under climate change,” said Dr. Zhenong Jin, one of the study’s authors and faculty member in BBE.

Read the recent publication in Nature Climate Change and the Research Brief from University Relations.