Rice, which accounts for almost half of daily calories consumed by the world’s population, could be adapted to global climate change through the colonization of the seeds or plants by fungal spores are tiny naturally present in some ecosystems under extreme environmental conditions. This conclusion was reached by a research team led from the USGS (the U.S. Geological Survey).
In an effort to explore ways to increase the adaptive capacity of rice to the adversities promoted by climate change have already begun to cause a decline in rice production, researchers at the USGS and its partners settled two commercial varieties of rice with fungal spores that exist naturally in certain plants native to coastal ecosystems (with tolerance to high salinity) and within certain ecosystems native plants geothermal (tolerant to extreme heat).
Experiments conducted by Rusty Rodriguez’s team have been successful. Rice plants grown without having been detected problems, and have achieved a much higher tolerance to high salinity, shortage of water, even cold, even though the rice varieties to which they belonged are not tolerant of nature of these conditions.
Improve tolerance to heat is the next step to continue the research team, because, on average, rice production decreased by 10 percent for every 1 degree Celsius increase in temperature during the growing season.
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