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A new laboratory where researchers aim to develop climate-resilient plants to ensure future food security has been built at a UK university. The £3 million facility at the University of Essex has an indoor field that replicates real environments anywhere on the globe and suites that imitate a warming world, with researchers able to adjust CO2 concentration and temperature levels. It has a commercial-standard vertical farm – described as a first for a UK university – and computer plant-scanning technology will also be used to monitor plants as they grow.