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NPR Interviews Ort on CO₂ Effects on Crop Yields

Don Ort

ASPB member Donald Ort, professor of plant biology at the University of Illinois, USDA–ARS, and editor-in-chief of Plant Physiology, was interviewed live on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday" program June 30. The subject discussed was lower-than-expected crop yield stimulation with rising CO₂ concentrations. The program addressed findings from research conducted by Ort, Stephen Long, Elizabeth Ainsworth, Andrew Leakey, and Josef Nösberger as published in the June 30 edition of Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/312/5782/1918 along with supporting online material at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/312/5782/1918/DC1/1). You can listen to the NPR interview by going to http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5525593.

On a related subject, Steve Long is organizing presentations on “Plants Mitigating Global Change” that will be presented at the ASPB annual meeting August 5 in Boston (http://www.aspb.org/meetings/pb-2006/).