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Effects of Ozone on Agricultural Crops

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Surface ozone is increasing in Asia and has become a major environmental stressor to the agricultural crop productions therein. This chapter summarizes the mechanisms of the ozone impacts on agricultural crops, and introduces the methodology for quantifying the crop yield losses using the results of ozone exposure experiments. Descriptions are given on differences and similarities between the ozone dose metrics: AOT40, M7/ M12, W126, and flux-based ozone dose metric PODy. Widely used dose-response relationships are also presented and compared with each other. Other approaches to the quantification of ozone impacts on crops are also reviewed briefly, and their advantages and drawbacks are discussed. Finally, this chapter introduces possible measures to protect agricultural crops from the impacts of increasing ozone concentrations.

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Kobayashi, K. (2022). Effects of Ozone on Agricultural Crops. In: Akimoto, H., Tanimoto, H. (eds) Handbook of Air Quality and Climate Change. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2527-8_25-1

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