Simultaneous improvement in productivity, water use, and albedo through crop structural modification

Global Change Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1955-1967

  Drewry, Darren T ^a,b   Kumar, Praveen ^c,d   Long, Stephen P ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Los Angeles   (United States)

^c University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Agriculture; Albedo; Carbon uptake; Climate change; Crop breeding; Crop ideotype; Evapotranspiration; Plant optimization; Sustainability; Water use efficiency

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALBEDO; CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CROP PLANT; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVAR; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LEAF AREA; MONOCULTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SURVIVAL; SUSTAINABILITY; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CORN BELT; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

WATER;

BIOPHYSICS; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SUNLIGHT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT LEAVES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SUNLIGHT; WATER;

EID: 84900016694     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12567     Document Type: Article

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