Increasing global agricultural production by reducing ozone damages via methane emission controls and ozone-resistant cultivar selection

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1285-1299

  Avnery, Shiri ^a   Mauzerall, Denise ^a,b   Fiore, Arlene M ^c,d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Crop sensitivity to O3; Cultivar selection; Methane mitigation; Ozone impacts; Surface ozone

Indexed keywords

METHANE; OZONE;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; MAIZE; METHANE; OZONE; SOYBEAN; TROPOSPHERE; WHEAT;

ARTICLE; CROP;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; METHANE; OZONE;

SOUTH ASIA;

GLYCINE MAX; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84874741935     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12118     Document Type: Article

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