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

Adaptive signals in algal Rubisco reveal a history of ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide

(2012) J. N. Young et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolutionary context for understanding and manipulating plant responses to past, present and future atmospheric [CO2]

(2012) A. D. B. Leakey et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Carbon dioxide and the uneasy interactions of trees and savannah grasses

(2012) W. J. Bond et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

C4 eudicots are not younger than C4 monocots

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

Panicum milioides (C3-C4) does not have improved water or nitrogen economies relative to C3 and C4 congeners exposed to industrial-age climate change

(2011) H. Pinto et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Stomatal control as a driver of plant evolution

(2011) M. Haworth 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

Deciphering the distribution of the savanna biome

(2011) Caroline E. R. Lehmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Decline of Leaf Hydraulic Conductance with Dehydration: Relationship to Leaf Size and Venation Architecture

(2011) C. Scoffoni et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality

(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Independent and Parallel Recruitment of Preexisting Mechanisms Underlying C4 Photosynthesis

(2011) N. J. Brown et al.   SCIENCE

Hydraulic patterns and safety margins, from stem to stomata, in three eastern US tree species

(2011) D. M. Johnson et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

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

Differences in drought sensitivities and photosynthetic limitations between co-occurring C3 and C4 (NADP-ME) Panicoid grasses

(2010) Brad Ripley et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The Regulation of Gene Expression Required for C4Photosynthesis

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

Vein patterning and evolution in C4 plants

(2010) Athena D. McKown et al.   Botany

Stomatal sensitivities to changes in leaf water potential, air humidity, CO2 concentration and light intensity, and the effect of abscisic acid on the sensitivities in six temperate deciduous tree species

(2010) Krõõt Aasamaa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

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

A Tortonian (Late Miocene, 11.61–7.25Ma) global vegetation reconstruction

(2010) Matthew J. Pound et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Turning over a new ‘leaf’: multiple functional significances of leaves versus phyllodes in Hawaiian Acacia koa

(2010) JESSICA PASQUET-KOK et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Minimum hydraulic safety leads to maximum water-use efficiency in a forage grass

(2010) MEISHA-MARIKA HOLLOWAY-PHILLIPS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

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

Leaf anatomy and photosynthetic carbon metabolic characteristics in Phragmites communis in different soil water availability

(2010) Chun-Mei Gong et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis--Looking for the Master Switch

(2010) P. Westhoff et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

An mRNA Blueprint for C4 Photosynthesis Derived from Comparative Transcriptomics of Closely Related C3 and C4 Species

(2010) A. Brautigam et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

Passive Origins of Stomatal Control in Vascular Plants

(2010) T. J. Brodribb et al.   SCIENCE

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

Leaf hydraulic evolution led a surge in leaf photosynthetic capacity during early angiosperm diversification

(2009) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Leaf Trait Diversification and Design in Seven Rare Taxa of the Hawaiian Plantago Radiation

(2009) Stephanie Dunbar‐Co et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

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

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

Xylem hydraulic physiology: The functional backbone of terrestrial plant productivity

(2009) Timothy J. Brodribb   PLANT SCIENCE

Ecological selection pressures for C4 photosynthesis in the grasses

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

Climate, phylogeny and the ecological distribution of C4 grasses

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

The age of the grasses and clusters of origins of C4photosynthesis

(2008) ALBERTO VICENTINI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Response of wild C4crop progenitors to subambient CO2highlights a possible role in the origin of agriculture

(2008) JENNIFER CUNNIFF et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Modelling C3 and C4 photosynthesis under water-stressed conditions

(2008) Giulia Vico et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

Hydraulic Failure Defines the Recovery and Point of Death in Water-Stressed Conifers

(2008) T. J. Brodribb et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

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