(Bloomberg) -- Wild relatives of peanuts and potatoes
are increasingly at risk of extinction as a result of climate
change, depriving their cultivated versions of a valuable gene
pool, researchers said.
Over the next 50 years, 61 percent of wild peanut species
and 12 percent of wild potatoes may become extinct as a result of
rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research said in
a statement today.
Read more at Bloomberg Commodities News
are increasingly at risk of extinction as a result of climate
change, depriving their cultivated versions of a valuable gene
pool, researchers said.
Over the next 50 years, 61 percent of wild peanut species
and 12 percent of wild potatoes may become extinct as a result of
rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research said in
a statement today.
Read more at Bloomberg Commodities News
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