Toward cool C4 crops

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 701-722

  Long, Stephen P ^a   Spence, Ashley K ^a  

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

Author keywords

Chilling; Cold; Maize; Miscanthus; Photosynthesis; RuBisCO

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CLIMATE; CROP; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; LIGHT; MAIZE; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ACCLIMATIZATION; CLIMATE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; LIGHT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; WATER; ZEA MAYS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877638432     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-050312-120033     Document Type: Review

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