Global climate change is increasingly a threat to the agricultural sector, food security, and societal stability due to rising temperatures, more frequent droughts, and increasingly unpredictable weather. It is, therefore, an important task for global agricultural communities to enhance crop resilience to climate change.
In the future, as the Earth becomes drier, hotter, and experiences higher levels of CO2 in the atmosphere, plants and crops that perform C4 photosynthesis will become crucial. Although C4 plants make up only about 3% of all plant species, they account for nearly a quarter of the annual net crop production and thus play a central role.
The C4FUTURE project investigates two important C4 grain crops (maize and sorghum) with the aim of increasing their resilience to climate change.
