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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...

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...

Help relieve cabin fever with these cold weather experiments Lindsey Anderson demonstrates cold weather experiments. and last updated 2021-02-17 10:33:23-05 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Experiencing cabin fever yet? Running out of things to do in this bitter cold with your family? Here are a few activities and science experiments you can try outside with your kids to help relieve that cabin fever feeling and learn something new in the process. Magic balloons: Watch balloons shrink and expand going from the inside warmth to the outside chill. As the balloon enters the cold air, the helium or air mo...

10 Tuesday AM Reads My Two-for-Tuesday morning • Biden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind After years of dire inflation predictions that failed to pan out, the people who run fiscal and monetary policy in Washington have decided the risk of “overheating” the economy is much lower than the risk of failing to heat it up enough. (New York Times) see also Stop Stressing About Inflation Inflation is periodic, driven by specific events; Deflation is consistent, the background state of the modern economy. Scarcity and abundance act as the drivers of the pri...