Intensifying drought eliminates the expected benefits of elevated carbon dioxide for soybean

• Published in: Nature plants Vol. 2; no. 9; p. 16132
• Main Authors: Gray, Sharon B., Dermody, Orla, Klein, Stephanie P., Locke, Anna M., McGrath, Justin M., Paul, Rachel E., Rosenthal, David M., Ruiz-Vera, Ursula M., Siebers, Matthew H., Strellner, Reid, Ainsworth, Elizabeth A., Bernacchi, Carl J., Long, Stephen P., Ort, Donald R., Leakey, Andrew D. B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 05.09.2016; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/449/1734; 631/449/1736; 631/449/2124; 704/106/694/2739; Agricultural production; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Carbon dioxide; Carbon Dioxide - metabolism; Climate Change; Crop yield; Crops; Drought; Droughts; Energy balance; Experimentation; Glycine max - physiology; Growth conditions; Life Sciences; Military air facilities; Photosynthesis; Plant Sciences; Soybeans; Stimulation; Stomata; Stress, Physiological; Weather

Stimulation of C 3 crop yield by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide ([CO 2 ]) is widely expected to counteract crop losses that are due to greater drought this century. But these expectations come from sparse field trials that have been biased towards mesic growth conditions. This e...