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ArticleEnvironmental geochemistry and health2020

Agro-ecological suitability assessment of Chinese Medicinal Yam under future climate change.

Dongli Fan, Honglin Zhong, Biao Hu, Zhan Tian, Laixiang Sun, Günther Fischer, Xiangyi Wang, Zhiyu Jiang

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Article in Environmental geochemistry and health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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  1. Biocontrol Efficacy and Mechanisms ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  4. Fungal Species Associated with Tuber Rot of Foshou Yam (Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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Dongli FanShanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, China.
Honglin ZhongDepartment of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Biao HuShanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, China.
Zhan TianSchool of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China. tianz@sustech.edu.cn.
Laixiang SunDepartment of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA. lsun123@umd.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7784-7942
Günther FischerInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 2361, Laxenburg, Austria.
Xiangyi WangShanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, China.
Zhiyu JiangShanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, China.

Funding

National Key R& D Program of China 2016YFC0502702National Key R& D Program of China 2018YFA0606204National Natural Science Foundation of China 4160011367National Natural Science Foundation of China 41671113National Natural Science Foundation of China 51761135024UK Met Office CSSP-China Programme AJYG-643BJQ
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Abstract

Chinese Medicinal Yam (CMY) has been prescribed as medicinal food for thousand years in China by Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practitioners. Its medical benefits include nourishing the stomach and spleen to improve digestion, replenishing lung and kidney, etc., according to the TCM literature. As living standard rises and public health awareness improves in recent years, the potential medicinal benefits of CMY have attracted increasing attention in China. It has been found that the observed climate change in last several decades, together with the change in economic structure, has driven significant shift in the pattern of the traditional CMY planting areas. To identify suitable planting area for CMY in the near future is critical for ensuring the quality and supply quantity of CMY, guiding the layout of CMY industry, and safeguarding the sustainable development of CMY resources for public health. In this study, we first collect 30-year records of CMY varieties and their corresponding phenology and agro-meteorological observations. We then consolidate these data and use them to enrich and update the eco-physiological parameters of CMY in the agro-ecological zone (AEZ) model. The updated CMY varieties and AEZ model are validated using the historical planting area and production under observed climate conditions. After the successful validation, we use the updated AEZ model to simulate the potential yield of CMY and identify the suitable planting regions under future climate projections in China. This study shows that regions with high ecological similarity to the genuine and core producing areas of CMY mainly distribute in eastern Henan, southeastern Hebei, and western Shandong. The climate suitability of these areas will be improved due to global warming in the next 50 years, and therefore, they will continue to be the most suitable CMY planting regions.

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DioscoreaPlants, MedicinalAgricultureChinaClimate ChangeEcosystemModels, TheoreticalAEZ modelChinese medicinal yamClimate changeSuitable planting area

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PMCPMC7188720

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