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Monthly Review | Degrowing China—By Collapse, Redistribution, or Planning?

This article will be released in full online July 17, 2023. Minqi Li asks: How can China, the world's largest energy consumer, be "de-grown"?

Rice plant resists arsenic

Credit: Sheng-Kai Sun / Nature Communications The agricultural cultivation of the staple food of rice harbours the risk of possible contamination with arsenic that can reach the grains following uptake by the roots. In their investigation of over 4,000 variants of rice, a Chinese-German research team under the direction of Prof. Dr Rüdiger Hell from the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) of Heidelberg University and Prof. Dr Fang-Jie Zhao of Nanjing Agricultural University (China) discovered a plant variant that resists the toxin. Although the plants thrive in arsenic-contaminated fields, the grains contain far less arsenic than other rice plants. At the same time, this variant has an elevated content of the trace element selenium.

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