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Strawberry ( Fragaria ananassa) is a popular fruit known for its rich nutrition and sweet taste. In a previous study Zhao et al. (2018) reported that elevated CO 2 improved strawberry fruit growth, yield and quality. Now, in a follow up paper, Li et al. (2020) explored the physiological and molecular mechanisms driving such changes. In doing so they examined the growth rate and photosynthetic indices in strawberry leaves under ambient and elevated CO 2, while also performing transcriptome profiling by RNA sequencing on leaves from the two CO 2 treatments in an effort to elucidate gene regul...

2 and climate on intrinsic water-use efficiency in South Asian tropical moist forest trees. Tree Physiology 40: 904-916. Numerous scientific studies have been conducted in both laboratory and field environments to examine the impact of rising atmospheric CO 2 on plant water use efficiency (WUE). In nearly all instances those studies reveal rising CO 2 improves plant WUE, typically by reducing plant stomatal apertures, which reduces water lost to the air via transpiration. Consequently, at higher levels of CO 2, plants tend to need less water to produce the same (or more) amount of tissue, wh...

Private sector coming forward with more enthusiasm in country's development journey: PM Modi ANI | Updated: Feb 20, 2021 21:29 IST New Delhi [India], February 20 (ANI): Noting that the private sector is coming forward with more enthusiasm in the country's development journey, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that government needs to respect this enthusiasm and energy and provide it matching opportunity in the 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' campaign. In his remarks at the 6th Governing Council meeting of Niti Aayog, the Prime Minister said that the posi...

Paper Reviewed Doo, S.S., Leplastrier, A., Graba-Landry, A., Harianto, J., Coleman, R.A. and Byrne, M. 2020. Amelioration of ocean acidification and warming effects through physiological buffering of a macroalgae. Ecology and Evolution, DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6552. The overwhelming majority of ocean acidification studies conducted to date involve assessing potential impacts on a given species in isolation. In the words of Doo et al. (2000), this is unfortunate and problematic because such experiments "do not capture ecologically relevant scenarios where the potential for multi-organism physiolog...

Paper Reviewed Ahmad, S., Israr, M., Liu, S., Hayat, H., Gul, J., Wajid, S., Ashraf, M., Baig, S.U. and Tahir, A.A. 2020. Spatio-temporal trends in snow extent and their linkage to hydro-climatological and topographical factors in the Chitral River Basin (Hindukush, Pakistan). Geocarto International 35: 711-734. Among the seemingly endless predictions of climate alarmism is the concern that rising temperatures are reducing planetary snow cover. But is this correct? A recent paper by Sun et al. (2020) suggests it is not, reporting instead that a large portion of Eurasia shows "no significant...