Prospects of photosynthetic research for increasing agricultural productivity, with emphasis on the tropical C4 Amaranthus and the cassava C3-C4 crops

Meeting Global Food Needs: Realizing the Potential via Genetics × Environment × Management Interactions

(2015) Jerry L. Hatfield et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Evolutionary History of Blepharis (Acanthaceae) and the Origin of C4 Photosynthesis in Section Acanthodium

(2015) Amanda E. Fisher et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Constraints to the potential efficiency of converting solar radiation into phytoenergy in annual crops: from leaf biochemistry to canopy physiology and crop ecology

(2015) Xinyou Yin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Genomic analysis of hybrid rice varieties reveals numerous superior alleles that contribute to heterosis

(2015) Xuehui Huang et al.   Nature Communications

Productivity and Carbon Dioxide Exchange of Leguminous Crops: Estimates from Flux Tower Measurements

(2014) Tagir G. Gilmanov et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Genetic Mapping Using Genotyping-by-Sequencing in the Clonally Propagated Cassava

(2014) Ismail Rabbi et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Comparative studies of C3 and C4Atriplex hybrids in the genomics era: physiological assessments

(2014) Jason C. Oakley et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

C2 photosynthesis generates about 3-fold elevated leaf CO2 levels in the C3–C4 intermediate species Flaveria pubescens

(2014) Olav Keerberg et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Deconstructing Kranz anatomy to understand C4 evolution

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

Global warming: causes and impacts on agroecosystems productivity and food security with emphasis on cassava comparative advantage in the tropics/subtropics

(2014) M. A. El-Sharkawy   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Root phenes that reduce the metabolic costs of soil exploration: opportunities for 21st century agriculture

(2014) JONATHAN P. LYNCH   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Field Phenotyping and Long-Term Platforms to Characterise How Crop Genotypes Interact with Soil Processes and the Environment

(2014) Timothy George et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Starch biosynthesis in cassava: a genome-based pathway reconstruction and its exploitation in data integration

(2013) Treenut Saithong et al.   BMC Systems Biology

Photorespiratory compensation: a driver for biological diversity

(2013) R. F. Sage   PLANT BIOLOGY

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

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

Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050

(2013) Deepak K. Ray et al.   PLoS One

There Ought to Be an Equation for That

(2012) Joseph A. Berry   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Photorespiration and the Evolution of C4Photosynthesis

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

Yield gap analysis with local to global relevance—A review

(2012) Martin K. van Ittersum et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

The yield gap of major food crops in family agriculture in the tropics: Assessment and analysis through field surveys and modelling

(2012) François Affholder et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

When yield gaps are poverty traps: The paradigm of ecological intensification in African smallholder agriculture

(2012) Pablo Tittonell et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Achieving yield gains in wheat

(2012) MATTHEW REYNOLDS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

C3plants enhance rates of photosynthesis by reassimilating photorespired and respired CO2

(2012) FLORIAN A. BUSCH et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

McClintock's challenge in the 21st century

(2012) N. V. Fedoroff   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Is Cassava the Answer to African Climate Change Adaptation?

(2012) Andy Jarvis et al.   Tropical Plant Biology

Feedforward non-Michaelis–Menten mechanism for CO2 uptake by Rubisco: Contribution of carbonic anhydrases and photorespiration to optimization of photosynthetic carbon assimilation

(2011) Abir U. Igamberdiev et al.   BIOSYSTEMS

The occurrence of C2 photosynthesis in Euphorbia subgenus Chamaesyce (Euphorbiaceae)

(2011) T. L. Sage et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth

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

Examining Cassava’s Potential to Enhance Food Security Under Climate Change

(2011) David M. Rosenthal et al.   Tropical Plant Biology

Models of biological nitrogen fixation of legumes. A review

(2010) Yanyan Liu et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield

(2010) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Revealing diversity in structural and biochemical forms of C4 photosynthesis and a C3-C4 intermediate in genus Portulaca L. (Portulacaceae)

(2010) E. V. Voznesenskaya et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Raising yield potential of wheat. II. Increasing photosynthetic capacity and efficiency

(2010) M. A. J. Parry et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

From sunlight to phytomass: on the potential efficiency of converting solar radiation to phyto-energy

(2010) Jeffrey S. Amthor   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Comparative photosynthesis, growth, productivity, and nutrient use efficiency among tall- and short-stemmed rain-fed cassava cultivars

(2010) M. A. El-Sharkawy et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

The Path from C3 to C4 Photosynthesis

(2010) U. Gowik et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Crop Yield Gaps: Their Importance, Magnitudes, and Causes

(2009) David B. Lobell et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Causes and consequences of variation in leaf mass per area (LMA): a meta-analysis

(2009) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Pioneering research on C4 leaf anatomical, physiological, and agronomic characteristics of tropical monocot and dicot plant species: Implications for crop water relations and productivity in comparison to C3 cropping systems

(2009) M. A. El-Sharkawy   PHOTOSYNTHETICA

Loss of the Transit Peptide and an Increase in Gene Expression of an Ancestral Chloroplastic Carbonic Anhydrase Were Instrumental in the Evolution of the Cytosolic C4 Carbonic Anhydrase in Flaveria

(2009) S. K. Tanz et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Genotypic variations in activities of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase and correlations with leaf photosynthetic characteristics and crop productivity of cassava grown in low-land seasonally-dry tropics

(2008) M. A. El-Sharkawy et al.   PHOTOSYNTHETICA