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ELEVATED CARBON DIOXIDE BOOSTS INVASIVE NUTSEDGE
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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June 9, 2008
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following press release:
Elevated levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) could promote the growth of purple and yellow nutsedge-quick-growing invasive weeds that plague farmers and gardeners in many states.
That's the conclusion of plant physiologist Hugo Rogers and his colleagues at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Soil Dynamics Laboratory (NSDL) in Auburn, Ala.
With ARS and Auburn University colleagues, Rogers grew purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus L.) and yellow nutsedge (C. esculentus L.) in chambers designed to mimic the atmospheric CO2 levels predicted to occur within the next century-about twice ...
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