The photosynthetic plasticity of crassulacean acid metabolism: An evolutionary innovation for sustainable productivity in a changing world

New Phytologist

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 619-633

  Borland, Anne M ^a   Barrera Zambrano, V Andrea ^a   Ceusters, Johan ^a,b   Shorrock, Katherine ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Circadian control; Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM); Marginal lands; Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC); Plasticity; Rubisco; Succulence

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; WATER;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY; BIOENERGY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; BIOMASS; C3 PLANT; C4 PLANT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SPECIALIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER STRESS; WATER USE;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CROP; DROUGHT; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; RIBULOSE-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER;

CRASSULACEAE;

EID: 79960556268     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03781.x     Document Type: Review

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