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This review was undertaken to draw together research on how climate change impacts sugarcane production, and to assess the implications of climate change for the sugarcane industry, as well as possible response options. Much of the extant research examines how changes in climate lead to changes in primary production; however, few studies consider how climate change translates into industry-wide impacts and economic consequences across the sugarcane value chain. Of the 90 studies we reviewed (published as journal articles, proceedings, and book chapters), 61 assess observed and/or projected impacts of climate change on sugarcane production. These studies reach largely different conclusions regarding how increases in air temperature or atmospheric carbon dioxide levels impact sugarcane production. These mixed results can be attributed to differences between the studies in terms of methods, time frames, and growing regions, which all limit cross-study comparability. A total of 17 studies focus on the adaptation to observed and/or projected impacts of climate change, such as changed management procedures or farming practices, but there is limited evidence regarding successful adaptation outcomes. In addition, a separate stream of papers discusses mitigating energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in the sugarcane production process, often with a view to reducing environmental impacts. Our review concludes by outlining the pathways for future research, highlighting that further insights are needed in particular regarding the economic consequences of climate change for the sugarcane industry. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. How to cite this article:WIREs Clim Change 2018, 9:e498. doi: 10.1002/wcc.498 INTRODUCTION T he amount of sugarcane produced worldwide is over four times that produced in 1965 and has now reached over 2 billion tons globally.1 The industry contributes significantly to gross domestic product in major sugarcane producing economies such as Brazil, India, and China. From the late 1990s onward, driven by growing concern about climate change and its potential economic consequences for the agricultural sector, researchers began to study the impacts of climate change on sugarcane production to better understand how projected changes in variables such as air temperature, rainfall, and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration influence sugarcane production. [2][3][4][5][6][7] This has created a body of knowledge of how changes in climate lead to changes in the primary production of sugarcane. However, there are few studies that focus on how climate change translates into industry-wide impacts across the sugarcane value chain.8-10 Industry stakeholders of 34and researchers have therefore started to call for a better understanding not only of how climate change impacts agricultural production, but also of the possible economic consequences resulting from climate change for specific agricultural industries. 11,12This review was undertaken to draw together research on how climate change impacts sugarcane...

Registration of 'Oklee' Wheat relatively early maturing and produces spikes 1.3 d earlier 'Oklee' is a hard red spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) than 2375 and 0.6 d earlier than Oxen (PI 596770), the most (Reg. no. CV-963, PI 634553) developed and released by the widely grown cultivar in Minnesota since the late 1990s. Oklee Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station in cooperation is a semidwarf cultivar and averages 75 cm, the same height with USDA-ARS in January 2003. It was named after a town as Oxen, and is 3 cm shorter than 2375 in Minnesota trials. in its region of adaptation in northwest Minnesota. Oklee was In 35 Minnesota trials conducted from 1998 through 2002, released on the basis of its high grain yield, high grain volume Oklee yielded 3664 kg ha Ϫ1 compared to 3482 kg ha Ϫ1 for weight, high grain protein content, and early maturity. In addi-2375 and 3825 kg ha Ϫ1 for Oxen. Oklee was evaluated in tion, Oklee has moderate resistance to Fusarium head blight 29 environments in the Uniform Regional Hard Red Spring (FHB, caused primarily by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe). Wheat Nursery in 1998 and 1999 and yielded an average of Oklee was derived from the cross '2375'/SBF0670, made 3456 kg ha Ϫ1 compared to an average of 3470 and 3503 kg by the former Pioneer Hi-Bred spring wheat breeding program ha Ϫ1 produced by the check cultivars, 2375 and Verde (PI in the USA. The cultivar 2375 (PI 601477, syn. Pioneer 2375) 592561, Busch et al., 1996), respectively. Oklee has moderately has the pedigree Olaf//Era/Suqamuxi 68/3/Chris/ND487//Lark strong straw and a lodging rating of 2.3 when scored on a and was widely grown in Minnesota during the mid-1990s due scale of 0 (erect) to 9 (lodged) in 21 environments at which to its moderate resistance to FHB. SBF0670 is an unreleased lodging occurred from 1998 thru 2002. By comparison, the line whose pedigree contains hard red spring lines once promicultivars 2375, Oxen, and Verde had lodging ratings of 3.5, nent in the region including 'Chris' (CItr 13751, Heiner and 2.6, and 2.1, respectively. Johnston, 1967), 'Era' (CItr 13986, Heiner and McVey, 1971), Oklee has moderate resistance to FHB in misted, inoculated and 'Butte'. field nurseries, similar to the resistance of 2375. In 11 FHB The F 2 population producing Oklee was selected for leaf nurseries from 1998 through 2001, Oklee averaged 23.6% disrust (caused by Puccinia triticina Eriks.) and stem rust (caused eased spikelets, 16.7% visually scabby kernels (VSK), and by Puccinia graminis Pers.: Pers.) resistance in a field planting 8.8 mg kg Ϫ1 of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON). The at St. Paul in 1993. The F 3 generation was advanced by single cultivar 2375 averaged 22.7% diseased spikelets, 17.5% VSK, seed descent in a greenhouse. The selection resulting in Oklee and 9.8 mg kg Ϫ1 DON. In the same trials, the resistant check was selected from a single plant in an F 4 headrow in 1994 and 'BacUp' (PI 596533, Busch et al., 1998) and the susceptible this seed was increased in a winter nursery in Arizona during check ...

Sugarcane striate mosaic associated virus (SCSMaV) has slightly flexuous 950 nm x 15 nm filamentous particles and is associated with sugarcane striate mosaic disease in central Queensland, Australia. We report the full sequence of its RNA genome, which comprises 5 open reading frames representing the polymerase, movement function proteins encoded in a triple gene block and coat protein. Phylogenetic analyses based on either the full nucleotide sequence, the polymerase protein, or the coat protein all placed SCSMaV in an intermediate position between the genera Foveavirus and Carlavirus, but outside both genera. In addition, the absence of a sixth open reading frame excludes it from the genus Carlavirus, and the coat protein is approximately half the size of the type member for the genus Foveavirus. Although SCSMaV was most closely allied to Cherry green ring mottle virus by genome analysis, the two viruses are morphologically and biologically dissimilar. SCSMaV may therefore represent a new plant virus taxon.