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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#333333 size=2>Climate change is threatening
the survival of crops such as the potato and the peanut, say researchers, and
there is an urgent need to collect and store seeds from their wild relatives for
future food security.<FONT color=#000000>But a study conducted by the
Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) and presented
this week at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Rome, Italy, found that
many as 61 percent of the 51 wild peanut species analysed and 12 percent of the
108 wild potato species analysed could become extinct as the result of climate
change in the next 50 years. </FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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