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Published online 17 February 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040216-8
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Climate change could boost cash crops
Carbon dioxide makes for bumper yields of soy.
Climate change could boost yields from one of America's most important crops, say plant biologists who have simulated the expected atmospheric conditions of 2050 in a US field.
Andrew Leakey of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has tended experimental soybean plots near the university since 2001, exposing the plants to the increased levels of ozone and carbon dioxide (CO2) predicted by climate-change models.
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