Jiayi Wu , Xiaojing Yang , Yuxin Zhu

Modern Agriculture Research Center, Cuixi Academy of Biotechnology, Zhuji, 311800, Zhejiang, China
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Field Crop, 2025, Vol. 8, No. 5   
Received: 03 Jul., 2025    Accepted: 11 Aug., 2025    Published: 05 Sep., 2025

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With the increasingly severe global climate change, drought and high-temperature stress have become the main environmental factors restricting the improvement of cotton yield and quality. The traditional field management model has many limitations in responding to extreme climate events, making it particularly urgent to promote the application of climate-smart agriculture in cotton production. This study focuses on the physiological response mechanisms of cotton under drought and high-temperature stress conditions. It systematically sorts out the key technical paths such as current climate-intelligent farming measures, breeding of stress-resistant varieties, intelligent irrigation and monitoring. By analyzing the practical cases of typical cotton-growing areas at home and abroad in water-saving cultivation, sowing period adjustment, heat stress monitoring and precise irrigation, it explores their adaptability and promotion effects. It also looks forward to the future development direction of climate-intelligent cotton planting models based on multi-source data fusion and decision support systems. This study aims to provide theoretical basis and technical support for efficient and sustainable cotton production in the context of addressing climate change.

Climate-smart agriculture; Cotton cultivation; Drought stress; High-temperature stress; Field management