Climate change has adverse effects on devastating environmental changes, human health, and agricultural production. How about that impact on plants to produce secondary metabolites that have been known to possess a tremendous benefit to human health?
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Soil organic matter decomposition rates are likely to be stimulated by higher temperatures, so that nutrients can be more readily mineralised and made available to plants. This is likely to increase photosynthetic carbon gain in nutrient-limited systems.
Yes, climate change do have impact on the quantity and quality of secondary metabolites produced by plants, since it a function abiotic factors often controlled by climate change.
Several studies have shown that abiotic factors such as water stress and light do control quantity but not quality of the metabolites.
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