Finding rice traits that tackle climate-change challenges
Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 06:50
in Earth & Climate
People around the world depend on food crops adapted to an array of temperature and precipitation regimes, but those conditions are in flux because of global climate change. So scientists want to identify plant traits that could be used to develop food-crop cultivars that thrive despite—or perhaps because of—shifts in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, water availability, and air temperature.