Source: Allan Maurer, WRAL TECHWIRE, 5/3/19

 Increasing warmth at night has a dramatic, negative effect on plants. Local scientists researching that fact shared their findings Wednesday with attendees at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center’s May Ag Tech Professional Forum. “Every degree of increasing nighttime warmth decreases food plant yields by 10 percent,” said Colleen Doherty, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular and structural biochemistry at North Carolina State University.

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