Some like it hot: the physiological ecology of C4 plant evolution

Introgression and repeated co-option facilitated the recurrent emergence of C4 photosynthesis among close relatives

(2017) Luke T. Dunning et al.   EVOLUTION

Mio-Pliocene aridity in the south-central Andes associated with Southern Hemisphere cold periods

(2017) William H. Amidon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

C4 photosynthesis evolution: the conditional Mt. Fuji

(2016) David Heckmann   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Strategies for improving C 4 photosynthesis

(2016) Susanne von Caemmerer et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Cooling and drying in northeast Africa across the Pliocene

(2016) Hannah M. Liddy et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

C3–C4intermediacy in grasses: organelle enrichment and distribution, glycine decarboxylase expression, and the rise of C2photosynthesis

(2016) Roxana Khoshravesh et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A portrait of the C4photosynthetic family on the 50th anniversary of its discovery: species number, evolutionary lineages, and Hall of Fame

(2016) Rowan F. Sage   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Despite phylogenetic effects, C3–C4lineages bridge the ecological gap to C4photosynthesis

(2016) Marjorie R. Lundgren et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Molecular phylogeny and forms of photosynthesis in tribe Salsoleae (Chenopodiaceae)

(2016) Christina Schüssler et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Carbon isotope discrimination as a diagnostic tool for C4photosynthesis in C3-C4intermediate species

(2016) Hugo Alonso-Cantabrana et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Genome biogeography reveals the intraspecific spread of adaptive mutations for a complex trait

(2016) Jill K. Olofsson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution of leaf anatomy in arid environments – A case study in southern African Tetraena and Roepera (Zygophyllaceae)

(2016) Maximilian Lauterbach et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Late Miocene global cooling and the rise of modern ecosystems

(2016) Timothy D. Herbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Evolutionary implications of C3-C4intermediates in the grassAlloteropsis semialata

(2016) Marjorie R. Lundgren et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Phylogeny and photosynthesis of the grass tribe Paniceae

(2015) Jacob D. Washburn et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

RNA-Seq based phylogeny recapitulates previous phylogeny of the genus Flaveria (Asteraceae) with some modifications

(2015) Ming-Ju Amy Lyu et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Photosynthetic innovation broadens the niche within a single species

(2015) Marjorie R. Lundgren et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Photosynthetic diversity meets biodiversity: The C 4 plant example

(2015) Rowan F. Sage et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Phylogeny of Sesuvioideae (Aizoaceae) – Biogeography, leaf anatomy and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

(2015) Katharina Bohley et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Atmospheric composition 1 million years ago from blue ice in the Allan Hills, Antarctica

(2015) John A. Higgins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A worldwide phylogenetic classification of the Poaceae (Gramineae)

(2015) Robert J. SORENG et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Diversification of C4 grasses (Poaceae) does not coincide with their ecological dominance

(2014) Yanis Bouchenak-Khelladi et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Gisekia (Gisekiaceae): Phylogenetic relationships, biogeography, and ecophysiology of a poorly known C4 lineage in the Caryophyllales

(2014) Kerstin Bissinger et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Shared origins of a key enzyme during the evolution of C4 and CAM metabolism

(2014) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

From museums to genomics: old herbarium specimens shed light on a C3 to C4 transition

(2014) Guillaume Besnard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

When do different C4 leaf anatomies indicate independent C4 origins? Parallel evolution of C4 leaf types in Camphorosmeae (Chenopodiaceae)

(2014) Gudrun Kadereit 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

From proto-Kranz to C4 Kranz: building the bridge to C4 photosynthesis

(2014) Rowan F. Sage et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The evolutionary ecology of C4plants

(2014) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global database of C4photosynthesis in grasses

(2014) Colin P. Osborne et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Environmentally driven evolution of Rubisco and improved photosynthesis and growth within the C3genusLimonium(Plumbaginaceae)

(2014) Jeroni Galmés et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2014) Julia Mallmann et al.   eLife

Evolution of leaf anatomy and photosynthetic pathways in Portulacaceae

(2013) Gilberto Ocampo et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Towards a new classification of the giant paraphyletic genusCyperus(Cyperaceae): phylogenetic relationships and generic delimitation in C4Cyperus

(2013) Isabel Larridon et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

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

(2013) David Heckmann et al.   CELL

Northeast African vegetation change over 12 m.y.

(2013) S. J. Feakins et al.   GEOLOGY

Structural and physiological analyses in Salsoleae (Chenopodiaceae) indicate multiple transitions among C3, intermediate, and C4 photosynthesis

(2013) Elena V. Voznesenskaya et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The role of fire in Miocene to Pliocene C4 grassland and ecosystem evolution

(2013) Sebastian Hoetzel et al.   Nature Geoscience

A 40-million-year history of atmospheric CO2

(2013) Y. G. Zhang et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Photorespiratory compensation: a driver for biological diversity

(2013) R. F. Sage   PLANT BIOLOGY

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

(2013) S. Schulze et al.   PLANT CELL

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

Molecular phylogenetics of Alternanthera (Gomphrenoideae, Amaranthaceae): resolving a complex taxonomic history caused by different interpretations of morphological characters in a lineage with C4 and C3-C4 intermediate species

(2012) IVONNE SÁNCHEZ-DEL PINO et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Adaptive Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis through Recurrent Lateral Gene Transfer

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Global vegetation dynamics and latitudinal temperature gradients during the Mid to Late Miocene (15.97–5.33Ma)

(2012) Matthew J. Pound et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Multiple photosynthetic transitions, polyploidy, and lateral gene transfer in the grass subtribe Neurachninae

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

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

The Development of C4 Rice: Current Progress and Future Challenges

(2012) S. von Caemmerer et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetic Studies in Axonopus (Poaceae, Panicoideae, Paniceae) and Related Genera: Morphology and Molecular (Nuclear and Plastid) Combined Analyses

(2012) Alicia López et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

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

Phylogenetics of the Chamaesyce clade (Euphorbia , Euphorbiaceae): Reticulate evolution and long-distance dispersal in a prominent C4 lineage

(2011) Ya Yang et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Evolution of Grasses and Grassland Ecosystems

(2011) Caroline A.E. Strömberg   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

C4 eudicots are not younger than C4 monocots

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

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

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

The molecular evolution of  -carbonic anhydrase in Flaveria

(2011) M. Ludwig   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Exploiting the engine of C4 photosynthesis

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

The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth

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

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of low atmospheric CO2 and elevated temperature during growth on the gas exchange responses of C3, C3–C4 intermediate, and C4 species from three evolutionary lineages of C4 photosynthesis

(2011) Patrick J. Vogan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Climate and environment of a Pliocene warm world

(2011) Ulrich Salzmann et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Atmospheric CO2decline during the Pliocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciations

(2011) Gretta Bartoli et al.   PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Evolution of C4Photosynthesis in the GenusFlaveria: How Many and Which Genes Does It Take to Make C4?

(2011) Udo Gowik et al.   PLANT CELL

Characterization of C3-C4 intermediate species in the genus Heliotropium L. (Boraginaceae): anatomy, ultrastructure and enzyme activity

(2011) RIYADH MUHAIDAT et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

Contemporaneous and recent radiations of the world's major succulent plant lineages

(2011) M. Arakaki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular phylogenetics of suborder Cactineae (Caryophyllales), including insights into photosynthetic diversification and historical biogeography

(2010) Gilberto Ocampo et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

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

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

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

The Neogene transition from C3 to C4 grasslands in North America: stable carbon isotope ratios of fossil phytoliths

(2010) Francesca A. McInerney et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Phylogeny of Salsoleae s.l. (Chenopodiaceae) based on DNA sequence data from ITS, psbB–psbH, and rbcL, with emphasis on taxa of northwestern China

(2010) Zhi-Bin Wen et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Phylogenetic Relationships in Eleocharis (Cyperaceae): C4 Photosynthesis Origins and Patterns of Diversification in the Spikerushes

(2010) Eric H. Roalson et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Biogeographic Patterns of Diversification and the Origins of C4 in Cleome (Cleomaceae)

(2010) Tatiana A. Feodorova et al.   SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

Neogene desertification of Africa

(2009) Brigitte Senut et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

The origins and diversification of C4grasses and savanna-adapted ungulates

(2009) YANIS BOUCHENAK-KHELLADI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Ecological selection pressures for C4 photosynthesis in the grasses

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

Coupling of CO2 and Ice Sheet Stability Over Major Climate Transitions of the Last 20 Million Years

(2009) A. K. Tripati et al.   SCIENCE

A Preliminary Molecular Phylogeny of the Rhynchosporeae (Cyperaceae)

(2008) Wm. Wayt Thomas et al.   BOTANICAL REVIEW

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

The biochemistry of Rubisco in Flaveria

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

Structural, biochemical, and physiological characterization of photosynthesis in two C4 subspecies of Tecticornia indica and the C3 species Tecticornia pergranulata (Chenopodiaceae)

(2008) Elena V. Voznesenskaya et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

Salinity tolerance in halophytes*

(2008) Timothy J. Flowers et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Photosynthetic pathway influences xylem structure and function inFlaveria(Asteraceae)

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

The impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) W. M. Kurschner 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