One crop breeding cycle from starvation? How engineering crop photosynthesis for rising CO2 and temperature could be one important route to alleviation

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1826, 2016, Pages

  Kromdijk, Johannes ^a   Long, Stephen P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Agriculture; Food supply; Genetically modified organisms (GMOs); Global change; Mathematical modelling; Photosynthesis

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FOOD SUPPLY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

BIOENGINEERING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING;

BIOENGINEERING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOT TEMPERATURE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT BREEDING;

EID: 84962518056     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2578     Document Type: Article

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