New crops on the block: effective strategies to broaden our food, fibre, and fuel repertoire in the face of increasingly volatile agricultural systems

Abstract Climate change poses significant challenges to our ability to keep a growing global population fed, clothed, and fuelled. This review sets the scene by summarizing the impacts of climate change on production of the major grain crop species rice, wheat, and maize, with a focus on yield reductions due to abiotic stresses and altered disease pressures. We discuss efforts to improve resilience, emphasizing traits such as water use efficiency, heat tolerance, and disease resistance. We move on to exploring