With climate changing, Southern plants do better than Northern locals

With climate changing, Southern plants do better than Northern locals
Davis CA (SPX) May 22, 2014 - Can plants and animals evolve to keep pace with climate change? A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that for at least one widely-studied plant, the European climate is changing fast enough that strains from Southern Europe already grow better in the north than established local varieties. Small and fast-growing, Arabidopsis thaliana is wid ... more

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