Travel advice on the road to carotenoids in plants

G Farré, G Sanahuja, S Naqvi, C Bai, T Capell, C Zhu… - Plant Science, 2010 - Elsevier
The carotenoids are a major class of organic pigments produced in plants and microbes.
They fulfill many essential physiological and developmental processes in plants, and also …

Impact of clear and cloudy sky conditions on the vertical distribution of photosynthetic CO2 uptake within a spruce canopy

O Urban, K Klem, A Ač, K Havránková… - Functional …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud cover affects carbon exchange between biota and the atmosphere. Recent studies
have demonstrated that an increase in the diffuse radiation fraction enhances the …

Carotenoid biosynthesis genes in rice: structural analysis, genome-wide expression profiling and phylogenetic analysis

N Chaudhary, A Nijhawan, JP Khurana… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2010 - Springer
Carotenoids, important lipid-soluble antioxidants in photosynthetic tissues, are known to be
completely absent in rice endosperm. Many studies, involving transgenic manipulations of …

Photoprotection of evergreen and drought-deciduous tree leaves to overcome the dry season in monsoonal tropical dry forests in Thailand

A Ishida, JY Yamazaki, H Harayama, K Yazaki… - Tree …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In tropical dry forests, uppermost-canopy leaves of evergreen trees possess the ability to use
water more conservatively compared with drought-deciduous trees, which may result from …

Influence of long-term nutrient manipulation on specific leaf area and leaf nutrient concentrations in savanna woody species of contrasting leaf phenologies

MC Scalon, M Haridasan, AC Franco - Plant and Soil, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background and aims The Neotropical Savanna in Central Brazil (Cerrado) is
characterized by periodic fires and soils with extremely low nutrient levels. We used long …

Leaf anatomy is associated with the type of growth form in Neotropical savanna plants

DR Rossatto, RM Kolb, AC Franco - Botany, 2015 - cdnsciencepub.com
Scleromorphic leaf structures are associated with plants growing under drought-prone
conditions, high irradiances, and nutrient-poor soils. Sclerophylly can also be a valuable …

The potential of natural shade provided by Brazilian savanna trees for thermal comfort and carbon sink

BE Teixeira, ST Nascimento… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study looked at the potential of thermal comfort provided to animals by four different
Brazilian savanna (Cerrado) native trees, as well as their potential for carbon sink. The …

Light energy management in micropropagated plants of Castanea sativa, effects of photoinhibition

PL Sáez, LA Bravo, MI Latsague, MJ Toneatti… - Plant Science, 2013 - Elsevier
The limited development of photoprotective mechanisms, specifically heat dissipation
capacity, found in micropropagated plants may be the result of low xanthophyll cycle …

Environment, phylogeny, and photosynthetic pathway as determinants of leaf traits in savanna and forest graminoid species in central Brazil

EJ Amaral, AC Franco, VL Rivera, CBR Munhoz - Oecologia, 2021 - Springer
Leaf traits are closely linked to plant responses to the environment and can provide
important information on adaptation and evolution. These traits may also result from …

Photosynthetic responses of understory savanna plants: Implications for plant persistence in savannas under tree encroachment

DR Rossatto, PE de Araújo, BHP da Silva, AC Franco - Flora, 2018 - Elsevier
Savannas are ecosystems where plants are expected to have leaf-level adaptations
conferring tolerance to high irradiances, which characterizes this type of open canopy …