A roadmap for research on crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) to enhance sustainable food and bioenergy production in a hotter, drier world

X Yang, JC Cushman, AM Borland… - New …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a specialized mode of photosynthesis that features
nocturnal CO 2 uptake, facilitates increased water‐use efficiency (WUE), and enables CAM …

Engineering crassulacean acid metabolism to improve water-use efficiency

AM Borland, J Hartwell, DJ Weston, KA Schlauch… - Trends in plant …, 2014‏ - cell.com
Climatic extremes threaten agricultural sustainability worldwide. One approach to increase
plant water-use efficiency (WUE) is to introduce crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) into C …

Exploiting the potential of plants with crassulacean acid metabolism for bioenergy production on marginal lands

AM Borland, H Griffiths, J Hartwell… - Journal of Experimental …, 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a photosynthetic adaptation that facilitates the
uptake of CO2 at night and thereby optimizes the water-use efficiency of carbon assimilation …

Facultative crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants: powerful tools for unravelling the functional elements of CAM photosynthesis

K Winter, JAM Holtum - Journal of experimental botany, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Facultative crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) describes the optional use of CAM
photosynthesis, typically under conditions of drought stress, in plants that otherwise employ …

Evolution along the crassulacean acid metabolism continuum

K Silvera, KM Neubig, WM Whitten… - Functional Plant …, 2010‏ - CSIRO Publishing
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a specialised mode of photosynthesis that
improves atmospheric CO2 assimilation in water-limited terrestrial and epiphytic habitats …

Crassulacean acid metabolism and fitness under water deficit stress: if not for carbon gain, what is facultative CAM good for?

A Herrera - Annals of botany, 2009‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background In obligate Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM), up to 99% of CO2
assimilation occurs during the night, therefore supporting the hypothesis that CAM is …

Kalanchoë PPC1 Is Essential for Crassulacean Acid Metabolism and the Regulation of Core Circadian Clock and Guard Cell Signaling Genes

SF Boxall, N Kadu, LV Dever, J Kneřová… - The Plant …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Unlike C3 plants, Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants fix CO2 in the dark using
phospho enol pyruvate carboxylase (PPC; EC 4.1. 1.31). PPC combines phospho enol …

Time of day and network reprogramming during drought induced CAM photosynthesis in Sedum album

CM Wai, SE Weise, P Ozersky, TC Mockler… - PLoS …, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Plants with facultative crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) maximize performance through
utilizing C3 or C4 photosynthesis under ideal conditions while temporally switching to CAM …

Engineering of crassulacean acid metabolism

K Schiller, A Bräutigam - Annual review of plant biology, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) has evolved from a C3 ground state to increase water
use efficiency of photosynthesis. During CAM evolution, selective pressures altered the …

Reversible Burst of Transcriptional Changes during Induction of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in Talinum triangulare

D Brilhaus, A Bräutigam, T Mettler-Altmann… - Plant …, 2016‏ - academic.oup.com
Drought tolerance is a key factor for agriculture in the 21st century as it is a major
determinant of plant survival in natural ecosystems as well as crop productivity. Plants have …