The evolutionary ecology of C4plants

Physiological advantages of C4grasses in the field: a comparative experiment demonstrating the importance of drought

(2014) Samuel H. Taylor et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Salt tolerance evolves more frequently in C4grass lineages

(2014) L. Bromham et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Developmental dynamics of Kranz cell transcriptional specificity in maize leaf reveals early onset of C4-related processes

(2014) S. Lori Tausta et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Increasing water use efficiency along the C3 to C4 evolutionary pathway: a stomatal optimization perspective

(2014) Danielle A. Way et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Deconstructing Kranz anatomy to understand C4 evolution

(2014) Marjorie R. Lundgren et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Photosynthetic flexibility in maize exposed to salinity and shade

(2014) R. E. Sharwood et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Towards an integrative model of C4 photosynthetic subtypes: insights from comparative transcriptome analysis of NAD-ME, NADP-ME, and PEP-CK C4 species

(2014) Andrea Bräutigam et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Three distinct biochemical subtypes of C4 photosynthesis? A modelling analysis

(2014) Yu Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Convergent phylogenetic and functional responses to altered fire regimes in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa

(2014) Elisabeth J. Forrestel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Transcript residency on ribosomes reveals a key role for theArabidopsis thalianabundle sheath in sulfur and glucosinolate metabolism

(2014) Sylvain Aubry et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Evolutionary Convergence of Cell-Specific Gene Expression in Independent Lineages of C4 Grasses

(2014) C. R. John et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The role of photorespiration during the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in the genus Flaveria

(2014) Julia Mallmann et al.   eLife

Predicting C4 Photosynthesis Evolution: Modular, Individually Adaptive Steps on a Mount Fuji Fitness Landscape

(2013) David Heckmann et al.   CELL

Parallel Recruitment of Multiple Genes into C4 Photosynthesis

(2013) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Land surface skin temperature captures thermal environments of C3and C4grasses

(2013) Christopher J. Still et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mechanisms driving an unusual latitudinal diversity gradient for grasses

(2013) Vernon Visser et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Differential freezing resistance and photoprotection in C3 and C4 eudicots and grasses

(2013) Mei-Zhen Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Is it easy to move and easy to evolve? Evolutionary accessibility and adaptation

(2013) Erika J. Edwards et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Three keys to the radiation of angiosperms into freezing environments

(2013) Amy E. Zanne et al.   NATURE

The recurrent assembly of C4 photosynthesis, an evolutionary tale

(2013) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis in the Genus Flaveria: Establishment of a Photorespiratory CO2 Pump

(2013) S. Schulze et al.   PLANT CELL

The Operation of Two Decarboxylases, Transamination, and Partitioning of C4 Metabolic Processes between Mesophyll and Bundle Sheath Cells Allows Light Capture To Be Balanced for the Maize C4 Pathway

(2013) C. Bellasio et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Initial Events during the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis in C3 Species of Flaveria

(2013) T. L. Sage et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Molecular Dating, Evolutionary Rates, and the Age of the Grasses

(2013) P.-A. Christin et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phenotypic landscape inference reveals multiple evolutionary paths to C4 photosynthesis

(2013) Ben P Williams et al.   eLife

Photorespiration and the Evolution of C4Photosynthesis

(2012) Rowan F. Sage et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Effects of competition on phylogenetic signal and phenotypic plasticity in plant functional traits

(2012) Jean H. Burns et al.   ECOLOGY

Improving our understanding of environmental controls on the distribution of C3and C4grasses

(2012) Stephanie Pau et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Angiosperm Responses to a Low-CO2 World: CAM and C4 Photosynthesis as Parallel Evolutionary Trajectories

(2012) Erika J. Edwards et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Phylogeny and photosynthetic pathway distribution in Anticharis Endl. (Scrophulariaceae)

(2012) Roxana Khoshravesh et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Evolution of C4 plants: a new hypothesis for an interaction of CO2 and water relations mediated by plant hydraulics

(2012) C. P. Osborne et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

You're so vein: bundle sheath physiology, phylogeny and evolution in C3 and C4 plants

(2012) HOWARD GRIFFITHS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Rubisco Evolution in C4 Eudicots: An Analysis of Amaranthaceae Sensu Lato

(2012) Maxim V. Kapralov et al.   PLoS One

Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4photosynthesis in grasses

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A broader model for C4 photosynthesis evolution in plants inferred from the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae s.s.)

(2012) G. Kadereit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Developmentally based scaling of leaf venation architecture explains global ecological patterns

(2012) Lawren Sack et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenetic relationships of Aristida and relatives (Poaceae, Aristidoideae) based on noncoding chloroplast (trnL-F , rpl16 ) and nuclear (ITS) DNA sequences

(2011) Rosa Cerros-Tlatilpa et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Environmental factors determining the phylogenetic structure of C4 grass communities

(2011) Vernon Visser et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

C4 eudicots are not younger than C4 monocots

(2011) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Evolution of the C4 photosynthetic mechanism: are there really three C4 acid decarboxylation types?

(2011) R. T. Furbank   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The role of proteins in C3 plants prior to their recruitment into the C4 pathway

(2011) Sylvain Aubry et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth

(2011) R. F. Sage et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Convergent Cenozoic CO2 history

(2011) David J. Beerling et al.   Nature Geoscience

What lies between: the evolution of stomatal traits on the road to C4 photosynthesis

(2011) Danielle A. Way   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Photosynthetic pathway and ecological adaptation explain stomatal trait diversity amongst grasses

(2011) S. H. Taylor et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

C4Cycles: Past, Present, and Future Research on C4Photosynthesis

(2011) Jane A. Langdale   PLANT CELL

Water-use efficiency and nitrogen-use efficiency of C3-C4 intermediate species of Flaveria Juss. (Asteraceae)

(2011) PATRICK J. VOGAN et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Fossil evidence for Cretaceous escalation in angiosperm leaf vein evolution

(2011) T. S. Feild et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Independent and Parallel Recruitment of Preexisting Mechanisms Underlying C4 Photosynthesis

(2011) N. J. Brown et al.   SCIENCE

Late Cretaceous origin of the rice tribe provides evidence for early diversification in Poaceae

(2011) V. Prasad et al.   Nature Communications

Molecular phylogeny of Atripliceae (Chenopodioideae, Chenopodiaceae): Implications for systematics, biogeography, flower and fruit evolution, and the origin of C4 photosynthesis

(2010) Gudrun Kadereit et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Decoding Leaf Hydraulics with a Spatially Explicit Model: Principles of Venation Architecture and Implications for Its Evolution

(2010) Athena D. McKown et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Regulation of Gene Expression Required for C4Photosynthesis

(2010) Julian M. Hibberd et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

COMPLEX EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF C3-C4 INTERMEDIATE FORMS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN MOLLUGINACEAE

(2010) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   EVOLUTION

Isotopic evidence of C4 grasses in southwestern Europe during the Early Oligocene-Middle Miocene

(2010) M. A. Urban et al.   GEOLOGY

Experimental investigation of fire ecology in the C3 and C4 subspecies of Alloteropsis semialata

(2010) Brad Ripley et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes in Rubisco Kinetics during the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis in Flaveria (Asteraceae) Are Associated with Positive Selection on Genes Encoding the Enzyme

(2010) Maxim V. Kapralov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Drought limitation of photosynthesis differs between C3 and C4 grass species in a comparative experiment

(2010) S. H. TAYLOR et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Phylogenetic analyses reveal the shady history of C4 grasses

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

(2010) E. J. Edwards et al.   SCIENCE

Can phylogenetics identify C4 origins and reversals?

(2010) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evolutionary Insights on C4 Photosynthetic Subtypes in Grasses from Genomics and Phylogenetics

(2009) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phylogenomics of C4 Photosynthesis in Sedges (Cyperaceae): Multiple Appearances and Genetic Convergence

(2009) G. Besnard et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ecophysiological traits in C3 and C4 grasses: a phylogenetically controlled screening experiment

(2009) Samuel H. Taylor et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

C4acid decarboxylases required for C4photosynthesis are active in the mid-vein of the C3speciesArabidopsis thaliana, and are important in sugar and amino acid metabolism

(2009) Naomi J. Brown et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Ecological selection pressures for C4 photosynthesis in the grasses

(2009) C. P. Osborne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparative genomic analysis of C4 photosynthetic pathway evolution in grasses

(2009) Xiyin Wang et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

C4 photosynthesis and water stress

(2008) O. Ghannoum   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Tracking the evolution of a cold stress associated gene family in cold tolerant grasses

(2008) Simen R Sandve et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

C4 Photosynthesis: Differentiating Causation and Coincidence

(2008) Eric H. Roalson   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses

(2008) Erika J. Edwards et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Geographic distributions and physiological characteristics of co-existing Flaveria species in south-central Mexico

(2008) Erika A. Sudderth et al.   FLORA

The age of the grasses and clusters of origins of C4photosynthesis

(2008) ALBERTO VICENTINI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Leaf cold acclimation and freezing injury in C3 and C4 grasses of the Mongolian Plateau

(2008) M.-Z. Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The biochemistry of Rubisco in Flaveria

(2008) David S. Kubien et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Evolutionary Switch and Genetic Convergence on rbcL following the Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis

(2008) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of C4 Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase in Grasses, from Genotype to Phenotype

(2008) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Seasonal differences in photosynthesis between the C3and C4subspecies of Alloteropsis semialata are offset by frost and drought

(2008) DOUGLAS G. IBRAHIM et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Photosynthetic pathway influences xylem structure and function inFlaveria(Asteraceae)

(2008) FERIT KOCACINAR et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Leaf palmate venation and vascular redundancy confer tolerance of hydraulic disruption

(2008) L. Sack et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

(2007) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY