Ozone Depletes Oil Seed Rape Productivity

Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 22:28 in Earth & Climate

With rising ozone levels scientists have found that high ozone conditions cause a 30 percent decrease in yield and an increase in the concentration of a group of compounds with toxic effects to livestock, but anticarcinogenic effects for humans, within oilseed rape plants.

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