A guide to photosynthetic gas exchange measurements: Fundamental principles, best practice and potential pitfalls

FA Busch, EA Ainsworth, A Amtmann… - Plant, cell & …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Gas exchange measurements enable mechanistic insights into the processes that underpin
carbon and water fluxes in plant leaves which in turn inform understanding of related …

Improving photosynthesis

JR Evans - Plant physiology, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
Photosynthesis is the basis of plant growth, and improving photosynthesis can contribute
toward greater food security in the coming decades as world population increases. Multiple …

Photosynthetic physiology of blue, green, and red light: Light intensity effects and underlying mechanisms

J Liu, MW Van Iersel - Frontiers in plant science, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Red and blue light are traditionally believed to have a higher quantum yield of CO2
assimilation (QY, moles of CO2 assimilated per mole of photons) than green light, because …

Synthetic glycolate metabolism pathways stimulate crop growth and productivity in the field

PF South, AP Cavanagh, HW Liu, DR Ort - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION Meeting food demands for the growing global human population requires
improving crop productivity, and large gains are possible through enhancing photosynthetic …

The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES), model description–Part 2: carbon fluxes and vegetation dynamics

DB Clark, LM Mercado, S Sitch… - Geoscientific Model …, 2011‏ - gmd.copernicus.org
The Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) is a process-based model that simulates
the fluxes of carbon, water, energy and momentum between the land surface and the …

Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model

S Sitch, B Smith, IC Prentice, A Arneth… - Global change …, 2003‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Lund–Potsdam–Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ) combines
process‐based, large‐scale representations of terrestrial vegetation dynamics and land …

Physiological and environmental regulation of stomatal conductance, photosynthesis and transpiration: a model that includes a laminar boundary layer

GJ Collatz, JT Ball, C Grivet, JA Berry - Agricultural and Forest meteorology, 1991‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents a system of models for the simulation of gas and energy exchange of a
leaf of a C 3 plant in free air. The physiological processes are simulated by sub-models …

Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

TE Cerling, JM Harris, BJ MacFadden, MG Leakey… - Nature, 1997‏ - nature.com
Between 8 and 6 million years ago, there was a global increase in the biomass of plants
using C4 photosynthesis as indicated by changes in the carbon isotope ratios of fossil tooth …

Separation of net ecosystem exchange into assimilation and respiration using a light response curve approach: critical issues and global evaluation

G Lasslop, M Reichstein, D Papale… - Global change …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
The measured net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of CO2 between the ecosystem and the
atmosphere reflects the balance between gross CO2 assimilation [gross primary production …

MORE EFFICIENT PLANTS: A Consequence of Rising Atmospheric CO2?

BG Drake, MA Gonzàlez-Meler… - Annual review of plant …, 1997‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The primary effect of the response of plants to rising atmospheric CO2 (Ca) is to
increase resource use efficiency. Elevated Ca reduces stomatal conductance and …