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Review: Heat-resilient crops are within reach — given enough time and money


The News Bureau at the University of Illinois wrote a press release article about review article "Safeguarding crop photosynthesis in a rapidly warming world" written by RIPE researchers  Carl Bernacchi, Stephen Long and Donald Ort.  

Original story blurb: Laboratory and field experiments have repeatedly shown that modifying the process of photosynthesis or the physical characteristics of plants can make crops more resilient to hotter temperatures. Scientists can now alter the abundance or orientation of leaves, change leaf chemistry to improve heat tolerance and adjust key steps in the process of photosynthesis to overcome bottlenecks, researchers report in a new review in the journal Science.

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