The United States produces about $300 billion a year in agricultural commodities, and all of that is vulnerable to climate change.
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Ru Zhang conducts research at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis. She has been leading a team of plant scientists investigating how photosynthetic cells retain heat-stress memory.
Through heat-stress memory, if plants experience a hot-emperature event it prepares those plants for the next round of hot temperatures, says Ru Zhang, an associate member and principal investigator at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.
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