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Genetic fixes may save crops from climate stress


Steve Long's review article "Needs and opportunities to future-proof crops and the use of crop systems to mitigate atmospheric change" from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B is highlighted. 

 

Original story blurb: Rising heat, relentless drought, violent downpours and a steadily thickening blanket of carbon dioxide are reshaping the planet on which agriculture depends. In a recent review, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign plant biologist Stephen Long has surveyed that changing landscape and the research aimed at ensuring food crops can still thrive.

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