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Open AccessEuropean soybean to benefit people and the environment
Europe imports large amounts of soybean that are predominantly used for livestock feed, mainly sourced from Brazil, USA and Argentina. In addition, the demand for GM-free soybean for human consumption is proje...
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Open AccessTwo decades of fumigation data from the Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment facility
The Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (SoyFACE) facility is the longest running open-air carbon dioxide and ozone enrichment facility in the world. For over two decades, soybean, maize, and other crops...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Faster than expected Rubisco deactivation in shade reduces cowpea photosynthetic potential in variable light conditions
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Open AccessFaster than expected Rubisco deactivation in shade reduces cowpea photosynthetic potential in variable light conditions
Cowpea is the major source of vegetable protein for rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa and average yields are not kee** pace with population growth. Each day, crop leaves experience many shade events an...
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Technologies to deliver food and climate security through agriculture
Agriculture is a major contributor to environmental degradation and climate change. At the same time, a growing human population with changing dietary preferences is driving ever increasing demand for food. Th...
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Photosynthesis engineered to increase rice yield
An engineered increase in Rubisco production has increased photosynthetic capacity, rice yield and nitrogen use efficiency in an experimental paddy field. This demonstrates a key means to sustainably increasin...
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Field-grown tobacco plants maintain robust growth while accumulating large quantities of a bacterial cellulase in chloroplasts
High accumulation of heterologous proteins expressed from the plastid genome has sometimes been reported to result in compromised plant phenotypes. Comparisons of transplastomic plants to wild-type (WT) are ty...
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Open AccessPredicting light-induced stomatal movements based on the redox state of plastoquinone: theory and validation
Prediction of stomatal conductance is a key element to relate and scale up leaf-level gas exchange processes to canopy, ecosystem and land surface models. The empirical models that are typically employed for t...
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Reply to: Brazilian ethanol expansion subject to limitations
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Publisher Correction: Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security
In the version of this Perspective originally published, ‘acidification’ was incorrectly spelt as ‘adification’ in Fig. 4. This has now been corrected.
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Open AccessPhotosystem II Subunit S overexpression increases the efficiency of water use in a field-grown crop
Insufficient water availability for crop production is a mounting barrier to achieving the 70% increase in food production that will be needed by 2050. One solution is to develop crops that require less water ...
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Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security
The magnitude of future climate change could be moderated by immediately reducing the amount of CO2 entering the atmosphere as a result of energy generation and by adopting strategies that actively remove CO2 fro...
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Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an expandable green alternative to crude oil use
Biofuels have lower CO2 emissions than fossil fuels, but competing land demands can limit expansion of production. This study shows Brazilian sugarcane ethanol could displace up to 13% of global crude oil consump...
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Intensifying drought eliminates the expected benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean
Stimulation of C3 crop yield by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide ([CO2]) is widely expected to counteract crop losses that are due to greater drought this century. But these expectations come f...
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Open AccessHigh C3 photosynthetic capacity and high intrinsic water use efficiency underlies the high productivity of the bioenergy grass Arundo donax
Arundo donax has attracted interest as a potential bioenergy crop due to a high apparent productivity. It uses C3 photosynthesis yet appears competitive with C4 grass biomass feedstock’s and grows in warm conditi...
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Impacts of a 32-billion-gallon bioenergy landscape on land and fossil fuel use in the US
Sustainable transportation biofuels may require considerable changes in land use to meet mandated targets. Understanding the possible impact of different policies on land use and greenhouse gas emissions has t...
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Open AccessEnvironment Has Little Effect on Biomass Biochemical Composition of Miscanthus × giganteus Across Soil Types, Nitrogen Fertilization, and Times of Harvest
Efficient conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks to ethanol will benefit from a consistent composition of supplied biomass. While composition or quality for a given feedstock is known to vary, the influence ...
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Sisal/Agave
Agave species have recently emerged as potential bioenergy feedstocks that can be grown on marginal semiarid lands, creating an economic opportunity in regions where there are few agricultural comm...
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Nitrogen Fertilization Does Significantly Increase Yields of Stands of Miscanthus × giganteus and Panicum virgatum in Multiyear Trials in Illinois
The C4 perennial grasses Miscanthus × giganteus and Panicum virgatum (switchgrass) are emerging bioenergy crops. They are attractive because they are productive and recycle nutrients to the overwintering belowgro...
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Photosynthesis in a CO2-Rich Atmosphere
The concentration of CO2 ([CO2]) in the atmosphere is projected to exceed 550 ppm by 2050. C3 plants respond directly to growth at elevated [CO2] by stimulation of photosynthesis and reduced stomatal conductance....
