How elevated CO2 affects our nutrition in rice, and how we can deal with it.

Increased concentrations of atmospheric CO2 are predicted to reduce the content of essential elements such as protein, zinc, and iron in C3 grains and legumes, threatening the nutrition of billions of people in the next 50 years. However, this prediction has mostly been limited to grain crops, and m...

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Main Authors: Kazuhiro Ujiie, Ken Ishimaru, Naoki Hirotsu, Seiji Nagasaka, Yuichi Miyakoshi, Masako Ota, Takeshi Tokida, Hidemitsu Sakai, Yasuhiro Usui, Keisuke Ono, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Hiroshi Nakano, Satoshi Yoshinaga, Takayuki Kashiwagi, Jun Magoshi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212840