Stock Photo - A new unique station near Bystrice nad Pernstejnem will examine the impact that expected climate changes will have on plants, Michal V. Marek, from the Academy of Sciences? Centre of Global Change Research, said during the ceremonial opening on Friday, July 12, 2013. The station, built with the EU?s financial support, consists of 24 automatically controlled chambers reminiscent of greenhouses that enable to simulate different climate phenomena which experts expect to develop in the Czech Republic in the next hundred years. Wheat and barley have been grown in the experimental chambers now, exposed to factors such as the rising concentration of carbon dioxide and ultraviolet radiation, drought and changing nutrition, in accordance with what may be expected at the end of the 21st century. The experts will see whether the changing conditions make the plants prone to quickly succumbing to drought, insects and fungal diseases. (CTK Photo/Lubos Pavlicek)