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How Plants Manage Calcium May Reduce Effects Of Acid Rain
Science Daily — A new understanding of how plants manage their internal calcium levels could lead to modifying plants to avoid damage from acid rain. The pollutant disrupts calcium balance in plants by leaching significant amounts of the mineral from leaves as well as the agricultural and forest soils the plants live in.
Scientists studying how plants manage calcium may find a solution to the damaging effects of acid rain, which harms sugar maples in the northeast.
"Our findings should help scientists understand how plant ecosystems respond to soil calcium depletion and to design appropriate strategies to protect the environment," said Zhen-Ming Pei, a Duke University biologist who led the study, which is published in the journal Science."

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Read the research behind this story in the journal Science.