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Scientists achieve breakthrough in global warming plant production

Washington, March 31 (ANI): Researchers at the universities of Leicester and Oxford in the UK have identified a single gene responsible for controlling plant growth responses to elevated temperature, a breakthrough that could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production as global warming increases. "Exposure of plants to high temperature results in the rapid elongation of stems and a dramatic upwards elevation of leaves," said ... Full story