MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas State University researcher has found an agricultural upside to elevated carbon dioxide levels in the earth’s atmosphere.

Agronomy professor Mary Beth Kirkham says experiments have shown that the elevated levels allow winter wheat and sorghum to use water more efficiently, which mitigates the effect drought has on those crops.

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