Some Plants May Not Adapt Quickly to Future Climate Change

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human-induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

"Some plant lineages, including many crops, will not have the underlying genetic attributes that will allow for rapid responses to climate change."

Some Plants May Not Adapt Quickly to Future Climate Change