Assessing the Effects of Water Deficit on Photosynthesis Using Parameters Derived from Measurements of Leaf Gas Exchange and of Chlorophyll a Fluorescence

L Urban, J Aarrouf, LPR Bidel - Frontiers in plant science, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
Water deficit (WD) is expected to increase in intensity, frequency and duration in many parts
of the world as a consequence of global change, with potential negative effects on plant gas …

A critical reevaluation of palaeoclimate proxy records from loess in the Carpathian Basin

I Obreht, C Zeeden, U Hambach, D Veres… - Earth-Science …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In the Carpathian Basin, loess is the most important archive of Quaternary
palaeoclimate evolution, but only in the past two decades systematic and high-resolution …

Overexpression of Rubisco subunits with RAF1 increases Rubisco content in maize

CE Salesse-Smith, RE Sharwood, FA Busch… - Nature Plants, 2018‏ - nature.com
Rubisco catalyses a rate-limiting step in photosynthesis and has long been a target for
improvement due to its slow turnover rate. An alternative to modifying catalytic properties of …

Adapting C4 photosynthesis to atmospheric change and increasing productivity by elevating Rubisco content in sorghum and sugarcane

CE Salesse-Smith, N Adar, B Kannan… - Proceedings of the …, 2025‏ - pnas.org
Meta-analyses and theory show that with rising atmospheric [CO2], Rubisco has become the
greatest limitation to light-saturated leaf CO2 assimilation rates (A sat) in C4 crops. So would …

The ins and outs of CO2

JA Raven, J Beardall - Journal of experimental botany, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
It is difficult to distinguish influx and efflux of inorganic C in photosynthesizing tissues; this
article examines what is known and where there are gaps in knowledge. Irreversible …

A Review of C4 Plants in Southwest Asia: An Ecological, Geographical and Taxonomical Analysis of a Region With High Diversity of C4 Eudicots

A Rudov, M Mashkour, M Djamali… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Southwest Asia is climatically and topographically a highly diverse region in the xeric belt of
the Old World. Its diversity of arid habitats and climatic conditions acted as an important area …

Improved analysis of C4 and C3 photosynthesis via refined in vitro assays of their carbon fixation biochemistry

RE Sharwood, BV Sonawane… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Plants operating C3 and C4 photosynthetic pathways exhibit differences in leaf anatomy and
photosynthetic carbon fixation biochemistry. Fully understanding this underpinning …

An E xcel tool for deriving key photosynthetic parameters from combined gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence: theory and practice

C Bellasio, DJ Beerling, H Griffiths - Plant, cell & environment, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Combined photosynthetic gas exchange and modulated fluorometres are widely used to
evaluate physiological characteristics associated with phenotypic and genotypic variation …

Low Salinity Improves Photosynthetic Performance in Panicum antidotale Under Drought Stress

T Hussain, HW Koyro, W Zhang, X Liu, B Gul… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Salinity and drought are two often simultaneously occurring abiotic stresses that limit the
production of food crops worldwide. This study aimed to distinguish between the separate …

Walking the C4 pathway: past, present, and future

RT Furbank - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
The year 2016 marks 50 years since the publication of the seminal paper by Hatch and
Slack describing the biochemical pathway we now know as C4 photosynthesis. This review …