Decreasing, not increasing, leaf area will raise crop yields under global atmospheric change

Global Change Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1626-1635

  Srinivasan, Venkatraman ^a   Kumar, Praveen ^a,b   Long, Stephen P ^a,c  

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

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

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

climate change; crop bioengineering; ecohydrology; food security; plant breeding; rising CO2

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; CARBON DIOXIDE; CROP YIELD; ECOHYDROLOGY; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; LEAF AREA; PLANT BREEDING; YIELD RESPONSE;

ILLINOIS; MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

GLYCINE MAX;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CROP; ILLINOIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; SOYBEAN;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ILLINOIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAVES; SOYBEANS;

EID: 85002914103     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13526     Document Type: Article

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