Thursday 8 May 2014

Climate: Rising C02 levels to hit grain nutrition

FARM NEWS
Climate: Rising C02 levels to hit grain nutrition
Paris (AFP) May 07, 2014 - Rising levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) will badly hit the nutritional value of key cereals, including rice and wheat, scientists warned on Wednesday. Crop breeders should focus on the worrying vulnerability of these staples to surging carbon emissions, they added. Reporting in the journal Nature, researchers said they had tested 41 strains of six crops grown in open fields at seven sites ... more


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