The study of phenomes or phenomics has been a central part of biology. The field of
automatic phenotype acquisition technologies based on images has seen an important …

Climatic extremes threaten agricultural sustainability worldwide. One approach to increase
plant water-use efficiency (WUE) is to introduce crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) into C …

Few clades of plants have proven as difficult to classify as cacti. One explanation may be an
unusually high level of convergent and parallel evolution (homoplasy). To evaluate support …

The Sedum alfredii Hance hyperaccumulating ecotype (HE) has the ability to
hyperaccumulate cadmium (Cd), as well as zinc (Zn) and lead (Pb) in above-ground tissues …

Continuous discoveries in plant and crop physiology have resulted in an abundance of new
information since the publication of the second edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop …

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis has evolved repeatedly across the
plant tree of life, however our understanding of the genetic convergence across independent …

Background In industrial oleaginous microalgae such as Nannochloropsis spp., the key
components of the carbon concentration mechanism (CCM) machineries are poorly defined …

The innovation of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) photosynthesis in arid and/or low
CO2 conditions is a remarkable case of adaptation in flowering plants. As the most important …

Circadian clocks allow plants to temporally coordinate many aspects of their biology with the
diurnal cycle derived from the rotation of Earth on its axis. Although there is a rich history of …

Highlights•Efforts are now underway to decipher the genetic blueprint for CAM.•Several
CAM genomes and transcriptomes have recently been published.•Kalanchoë has been …