Fungi pose a significant threat to crops worldwide, scientists warn in a new commentary, with increasingly 'devastating' effects on our food supply.
Humans have invited this crisis in other ways, too, the researchers, like establishing vast monocultures of genetically similar crops, which are especially susceptible to fungal outbreaks.
As fungicides loir efficacy on newly resistant fungi, frustrated farmers sometimes respond by using higher concentrations of the same fungicides, potentially making things worse. "As our global population is projected to soar, humanity is facing unprecedented challenges to food production," she."We're already seeing massive crop losses to fungal infection, which could sustain millions of people each year."
"This worrying trend may only worsen as a warming world makes fungal infections more prevalent in European crops, and as they continue to develop resistance to antifungals," Stukenbrock."This will be catastrophic for developing countries and will have a major impact in the Western world, too."
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