Corn is one of the planet s most important crops. It not only provides sweet kernels to flavor many dishes, but it s also used in oils, as a sweetener syrup, and as a feed crop for livestock. Corn has been bred to maximize its yield on farms around the world.
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A team of atmospheric scientists have found that plants responding to elevated carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could increase regional flood risk in some cases dramatically.