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September 07, 2016

Future drought will offset benefits of higher CO2 on soybean yields
Champaign IL (SPX) Sep 07, 2016
An eight-year study of soybeans grown outdoors in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere like that expected by 2050 has yielded a new and worrisome finding: Higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations will boost plant growth under ideal growing conditions, but drought - expected to worsen as the climate warms and rainfall patterns change - will outweigh those benefits and cause yield losses much sooner than anticipated. (See video) The new discovery, reported in the journal Nature Plants, contradicts a widely ... read more

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