Response of wheat growth, grain yield and water use to elevated CO2 under a Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) experiment and modelling in a semi-arid environment

Global Change Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2670-2686

  O'Leary, Garry J ^a   Christy, Brendan ^a   Nuttall, James ^a   Huth, Neil ^b   Cammarano, Davide ^c,h   Stöckle, Claudio ^d   Basso, Bruno ^e   Shcherbak, Iurii ^e   Fitzgerald, Glenn ^a   Luo, Qunying ^f   Farre Codina, Immaculada ^a   Palta, Jairo ^b,g   Asseng, Senthold ^c  

^a Department of Environment and Primary Industries ^*  (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^h SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Elevated CO2; Modelling; Radiation use efficiency; Transpiration efficiency

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RESPONSE; RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SEMIARID REGION; TRANSPIRATION; WATER USE; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84930989395     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12830     Document Type: Article

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