ArticleScientific reports2018
Reduction in nutritional quality and growing area suitability of common bean under climate change induced drought stress in Africa.
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- The Genetic Diversity of African Common Bean Germplasm: A Systematic Review of Reported Molecular Studies.Genes · 2026Pooled it
- Safeguarding diet quality in a changing climate: a scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Combination of meta-analysis of QTL and GWAS to uncover the genetic architecture of seed yield and seed yield components in common bean.The plant genome · 2023Pooled it
- Can cereal-legume intercrop systems contribute to household nutrition in semi-arid environments: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Influence of genetic diversity, drought stress and rhizobial symbiosis on the nutritional quality of common vetch (Vicia sativa L.) grain.Journal of the science of food and agriculture · 2026Article
- Climate change and the antinutrient-antioxidant puzzle in common bean seeds.Journal of the science of food and agriculture · 2026Review
- Harnessing faba bean MAGIC populations for enhanced protein content, yield, and agronomic performance in diverse environments.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
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- Climate change threatens crop diversity at low latitudes.Nature food · 2025Article
- Genome Wide Identification and Characterization of LIM Domain Associated Gene Superfamily in Common Bean (International journal of genomics · 2025Article
- Consumer traits of common beans: a global and regional perspective on seed coat darkening, cooking time, protein, and mineral content.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
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- Comparative Effects of Water Scarcity on the Growth and Development of Two Common Bean (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- GATA transcription factor in common bean: A comprehensive genome-wide functional characterization, identification, and abiotic stress response evaluation.Plant molecular biology · 2024Article
- Comprehensive Proteomic Analysis of Common Bean (Biomolecules · 2024Article
- Practical Considerations and Limitations of Using Leaf and Canopy Temperature Measurements as a Stomatal Conductance Proxy: Sensitivity across Environmental Conditions, Scale, and Sample Size.Plant phenomics (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Article
- Characterizing patterns of seasonal drought stress for use in common bean breeding in East Africa under present and future climates.Agricultural and forest meteorology · 2023Article
- Biofortification of common bean (Food and energy security · 2023Review
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14 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Climate change impacts on food security will involve negative impacts on crop yields, and potentially on the nutritional quality of staple crops. Common bean is the most important grain legume staple crop for human diets and nutrition worldwide. We demonstrate by crop modeling that the majority of current common bean growing areas in southeastern Africa will become unsuitable for bean cultivation by the year 2050. We further demonstrate reductions in yields of available common bean varieties in a field trial that is a climate analogue site for future predicted drought conditions. Little is known regarding the impact of climate change induced abiotic stresses on the nutritional quality of common beans. Our analysis of nutritional and antinutritional compounds reveals that iron levels in common bean grains are reduced under future climate-scenario relevant drought stress conditions. In contrast, the levels of protein, zinc, lead and phytic acid increase in the beans under such drought stress conditions. This indicates that under climate-change induced drought scenarios, future bean servings by 2050 will likely have lower nutritional quality, posing challenges for ongoing climate-proofing of bean production for yields, nutritional quality, human health, and food security.
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