ApocaDocs: Field study shows why food quality will suffer with rising CO2

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Posted Mon Apr 7 2014: from UC Davis, via EurekAlert:


	Field study shows why food quality will suffer with rising CO2 http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1396892232 For the first time, a field test has demonstrated that elevated levels of carbon dioxide inhibit plants' assimilation of nitrate into proteins, indicating that the nutritional quality of food crops is at risk as climate change intensifies.... "[T]his is the first study to demonstrate that elevated carbon dioxide inhibits the conversion of nitrate into protein in a field-grown crop," he said. The assimilation, or processing, of nitrogen plays a key role in the plant's growth and productivity. In food crops, it is especially important because plants use nitrogen to produce the proteins that are vital for human nutrition. Wheat, in particular, provides nearly one-fourth of all protein in the global human diet.

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