{"id":96,"date":"2018-05-25T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/?p=96"},"modified":"2018-05-25T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T09:34:42","slug":"rice-becomes-less-nutritious-as-co2-levels-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/2018\/05\/25\/rice-becomes-less-nutritious-as-co2-levels-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice becomes less nutritious as CO2 levels rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A research project by the University of Tokyo has revealed that certain strains of rice have become less nutritious resulting from increased CO2 levels. This is extremely problematic in countries with large rice consu<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97 alignright\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/05\/170893_web-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/05\/170893_web-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/05\/170893_web-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/05\/170893_web-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2018\/05\/170893_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">mption and low GDP. This may result in malnutrition in the most vulnerable pa<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">rts of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>However, Its not all doom and gloom. Certain breeds of rice have shown no loss in nutrition and they can be studied and enhanced to improve food security in our changing climate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2018-05\/uot-rbl051818.php\">Here<\/a> is an article related to the study<\/p>\n<p>C. Zhu, K. Kobayashi, I. Loladze, J. Zhu, Q. Jiang, X. Xu, G. Liu, S. Seneweera, K. L. Ebi, A. Drewnowski, N. Fukagawa, L. H. Ziska, Carb<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">on dioxide (CO<\/span><sub>2<\/sub><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">) levels this century will alter the protein, micronutrients, and vitamin content of rice grains with potential health consequences for the poorest rice dependent countries. Sci. Adv. 4, eaaq1012 (2018).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research project by the University of Tokyo has revealed that certain strains of rice have become less nutritious resulting from increased CO2 levels. This is extremely problematic in countries with large rice consumption and low GDP. This may result in malnutrition in the most vulnerable parts of the world.\u00a0 However, Its not all doom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/2018\/05\/25\/rice-becomes-less-nutritious-as-co2-levels-rise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rice becomes less nutritious as CO2 levels rise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/eanna-crowe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}