Fungal gene to help wheat and rice cope with climate change
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Researchers at the Australian National University have identified a gene in algae that could help wheat and rice cope with climate change. Carbon dioxide levels are rising, and Australia's grain growing regions are getting drier. Professor Murray Badger says his research could improve the photosynthesis of wheat and rice, in an atmosphere of higher carbon dioxide concentrations. "If you can take simple genes such as algae and put it into a plant like wheat, you ...
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