ABSTRACT
Earth’s environment is expected to ensue to alter throughout this century and beyond. The extent of climate change in the coming years mainly depends on the anthropogenic emissions and sensitiveness of climate toward those emissions. During the last few decades, our knowledge about climate change has expanded considerably in terms of report documentation of climate change and development of models predicting the future alteration in climate. Meanwhile, modeling studies have become better to predict the influence of climate change on plant diseases. Nonetheless, various uncertainties could affect these estimations. Climate change can have a positive, negative, or neutral impact on plant disease based on its spatial and temporal distribution. Moreover, climate change affects the incidence, prevalence, and severity of plant pathogen/disease. It is imperative to investigate for such models that could envisage the incidence and/or severity of plant pathogens in the actual field condition. Schemes for phytopathogen management must be restructured in changing context with the combination of innovative plans for sustainable food production. This chapter highlights different facets allied with the influences of climate change on pathogen incidence and their mitigation strategies for sustainable crop production.
