Poorer quality wheat when carbon dioxide levels in the air rise

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 09:00 in Earth & Climate

Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have a negative impact on the protein content of wheat grain and thus its nutritional quality. This is the finding of researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in a recently published study in the journal Global Change Biology.

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