The case for improving crop carbon sink strength or plasticity for a CO2-rich future

M Dingkuhn, D Luquet, D Fabre, B Muller, X Yin… - Current Opinion in Plant …, 2020 - Elsevier
Atmospheric CO 2 concentration [CO 2] has increased from 260 to 280 μmol mol− 1 (level
during crop domestication up to the industrial revolution) to currently 400 and will reach 550 …

Photons to food: genetic improvement of cereal crop photosynthesis

RT Furbank, R Sharwood, GM Estavillo… - Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Photosynthesis has become a major trait of interest for cereal yield improvement as
breeders appear to have reached the theoretical genetic limit for harvest index, the mass of …

Linking fundamental science to crop improvement through understanding source and sink traits and their integration for yield enhancement

MJ Paul, A Watson, CA Griffiths - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Understanding processes in sources and sinks that contribute to crop yields has taken years
of painstaking research. For crop yield improvement, processes need to be understood as …

Turning sugar into oil: making photosynthesis blind to feedback inhibition

MJ Paul, PJ Eastmond - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This article comments on: Beechey-Gradwell Z, Cooney L, Winichayakul S, Andrews M, Hea
SY, Crowther T, Roberts N. 2020. Storing carbon in leaf lipid sinks enhanced perennial …

[PDF][PDF] Challenges for agricultural research and development in a context of sustainability

V Sadras - 2022 - researchgate.net
This paper discusses the challenges for agricultural research and development (ag R&D)
against the backdrop of sustainability, with a particular focus on Argentina. It is organised in …