Evolutionary context for understanding and manipulating plant responses to past, present and future atmospheric [CO2]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1588, 2012, Pages 613-629

  Leakey, Andrew D B ^a   Lau, Jennifer A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Climate change; Evolution; Fitness; Yield

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CHANGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; VASCULAR PLANT;

TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 84855710918     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0248     Document Type: Review

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