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Research partly supported through the EU-funded EXPEER project has found that plants are increasingly adapting to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), which could have important implications for global food security and nature conservation.

The research from the University of Southampton, UK, published recently in the journal ‘Global Change Biology’, shows that as plants are exposed to elevated CO2 emissions, gene expression is altered, indicating that changes in gene regulation could be a prominent mechanism underpinning adaption to elevated CO2.