Global warming and associated precipitation changes will negatively impact on many
agricultural ecosystems. Major food production areas are expected to experience reduced …

The ratio of plant carbon gain to water use, known as water use efficiency (WUE), has long
been recognized as a key constraint on crop production and an important target for crop …

A warming climate coupled with reductions in water availability and rising salinity are
increasingly affecting rice (Oryza sativa) yields. Elevated temperatures combined with …

Persian walnut is a drought-sensitive species with considerable genetic variation in the
photosynthesis and water use efficiency of its populations, which is largely unexplored …

Unraveling gene function is pivotal to understanding the signaling cascades that control
plant development and stress responses. As experimental profiling is costly and labor …

Plants grown under field conditions experience fluctuating light. Understanding the natural
genetic variations for a similarly dynamic photosynthetic response among untapped …

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a model C4 crop made experimentally tractable by extensive
genomic and genetic resources. Biomass sorghum is studied as a feedstock for biofuel and …

Angiosperm diversity arises from trait flexibility and repeated evolutionary radiations, but the
role of genomic characters in these radiations remains unclear. In this opinion article, we …

Stomata are adjustable pores on leaf surfaces that regulate the tradeoff of CO2 uptake with
water vapor loss, thus having critical roles in controlling photosynthetic carbon gain and …

Stomata control CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and water loss through transpiration, thus
playing a key role in leaf thermoregulation, water-use efficiency (iWUE), and plant …