Cassava about-FACE: Greater than expected yield stimulation of cassava (Manihot esculenta) by future CO2 levels

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 18; no. 8; pp. 2661 - 2675
• Main Authors: Rosenthal, David M., Slattery, Rebecca A., Miller, Rebecca E., Grennan, Aleel K., Cavagnaro, Timothy R., Fauquet, Claude M., Gleadow, Roslyn M., Ort, Donald R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2012; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Acclimatization; Africa; Agricultural production; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Carbon dioxide; Climate change; Crop production; Crops; Food security; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Greenhouse gases; Greenhouses; harvest index; Manihot esculenta; Photosynthesis; photosynthetic acclimation; sink strength; Solanum tuberosum; tropical crops; Africa; Manihot esculenta; Carbon dioxide; Africa; Tropical crop; Stimulation; sink strength; photosynthetic acclimation; Dicotyledones; Food security; Angiospermae; harvest index; Euphorbiaceae; Spermatophyta; Yield; Photosynthesis; tropical crops; Adaptation

Globally, cassava is the second most important root crop after potatoes and the fifth most important crop overall in terms of human caloric intake. In addition to its growing global importance for feed, fuel, and starch, cassava has long been vital to food security in Sub‐Saharan Africa. Climate cha...