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

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

Ancient grasslands at risk

(2016) W. J. Bond   SCIENCE

Environment and Climate of Early Human Evolution

(2015) Naomi E. Levin   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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

Improving photosynthesis and yield potential in cereal crops by targeted genetic manipulation: Prospects, progress and challenges

(2015) Robert T. Furbank et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

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

Genetic Enablers Underlying the Clustered Evolutionary Origins of C4 Photosynthesis in Angiosperms

(2015) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Dietary changes of large herbivores in the Turkana Basin, Kenya from 4 to 1 Ma

(2015) Thure E. Cerling 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

The American Journal of Botany: Into the Second Century of Publication

(2014) J. Jernstedt   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Evolutionary bursts inEuphorbia(Euphorbiaceae) are linked with photosynthetic pathway

(2014) James W. Horn et al.   EVOLUTION

Rising sea level, temperature, and precipitation impact plant and ecosystem responses to elevated CO2on a Chesapeake Bay wetland: review of a 28-year study

(2014) Bert G. Drake   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Introgression of two chromosome regions for leaf photosynthesis from an indica rice into the genetic background of a japonica rice

(2014) Shunsuke Adachi et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Energy Sorghum--a genetic model for the design of C4 grass bioenergy crops

(2014) J. Mullet et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL 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

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

(2014) Jason C. Oakley 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

Impacts of climate change drivers on C4 grassland productivity: scaling driver effects through the plant community

(2014) H. W. Polley et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Cracking the Kranz enigma with systems biology

(2014) J. P. Fouracre 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

A global database of C4photosynthesis in grasses

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

Notes on the typification and nomenclature of Salsola and Kali (Chenopodiaceae)

(2014) Hossein Akhani et al.   TAXON

Tropical grassy biomes: misunderstood, neglected, and under threat

(2014) Catherine L. Parr et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Evolution of leaf anatomy and photosynthetic pathways in Portulacaceae

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

Toward Cool C4Crops

(2013) Stephen P. Long et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

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

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

One decade after the discovery of single-cell C4 species in terrestrial plants: what did we learn about the minimal requirements of C4 photosynthesis?

(2013) Richard M. Sharpe et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

C3 and C4 leaf anatomy types in Camphorosmeae (Camphorosmoideae, Chenopodiaceae)

(2013) Helmut Freitag et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Diet of Theropithecus from 4 to 1 Ma in Kenya

(2013) T. E. Cerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate Change and North American Rangelands: Trends, Projections, and Implications

(2013) H. Wayne Polley et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

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

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

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

Generic phylogeny, historical biogeography and character evolution of the cosmopolitan aquatic plant family Hydrocharitaceae

(2012) Ling-Yun Chen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Feedback from plant species change amplifies CO2enhancement of grassland productivity

(2012) H. Wayne Polley 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

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

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

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

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

CO2-caused change in plant species composition rivals the shift in vegetation between mid-grass and tallgrass prairies

(2011) H. Wayne Polley et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

C4 eudicots are not younger than C4 monocots

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

Exploiting the engine of C4 photosynthesis

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

Setaria viridis and Setaria italica, model genetic systems for the Panicoid grasses

(2011) P. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth

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

C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland

(2011) Jack A. Morgan et al.   NATURE

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

(2011) Udo Gowik et al.   PLANT CELL

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

Phylogenetic studies favour the unification of Pennisetum, Cenchrus and Odontelytrum (Poaceae): a combined nuclear, plastid and morphological analysis, and nomenclatural combinations in Cenchrus

(2010) M. Amelia Chemisquy et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The Regulation of Gene Expression Required for C4Photosynthesis

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

Beyond the forest edge: Ecology, diversity and conservation of the grassy biomes

(2010) William J. Bond et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

(2010) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   EVOLUTION

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

(2010) A. Brautigam et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Path from C3 to C4 Photosynthesis

(2010) U. Gowik et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Can phylogenetics identify C4 origins and reversals?

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

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

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

Convergent evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey

(2009) Szabolcs Lengyel et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

More Productive Than Maize in the Midwest: How Does Miscanthus Do It?

(2009) F. G. Dohleman et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Extreme contagion in global habitat clearance

(2009) E. H. Boakes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and the future of C4 crops for food and fuel

(2009) A. D.B. Leakey   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

What Limits Trees in C4 Grasslands and Savannas?

(2008) William J. Bond   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

What is the maximum efficiency with which photosynthesis can convert solar energy into biomass?

(2008) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

The age of the grasses and clusters of origins of C4photosynthesis

(2008) ALBERTO VICENTINI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Meeting US biofuel goals with less land: the potential of Miscanthus

(2008) EMILY A. HEATON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Biomass energy: the scale of the potential resource

(2008) C FIELD et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses

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