Climate change poses a threat to yields and food security worldwide, with plant diseases as one of the main risks. An international team of researchers surrounding Professor Senthold Asseng from the Technical University of Munich has recently shown that further spread of the fungal disease wheat blast could reduce global wheat production by 13 percent until 2050. The result is dramatic for global food security.
Fungal disease endangers wheat production
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Wheat blast is a potential threat to wheat production worldwide.
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