U.S. researchers discovered that sugarcane grown in sunlit greenhouses at 720 ppm CO2 and 11 degrees F (6 degrees C) higher than outside ambient air produced stem juice an amazing 124 % higher in volume than sugarcane
grown at ambient temperature and 360 ppm carbon dioxide.
Researchers increased
temperatures at the test plots by 3.4 degrees C, an increase that might happen by the end of the 21st century, and learned that plants
grown and measured
at those higher
temperatures increased their leaf respiration by an average 5 percent, compared to plants in
ambient temperatures.