Search Results - "OSBORNE, Colin P"
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How can we make plants grow faster? A source–sink perspective on growth rate
Published in Journal of experimental botany (01-01-2016)“…Growth is a major component of fitness in all organisms, an important mediator of competitive interactions in plant communities, and a central determinant of…”
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Plant domestication through an ecological lens
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-08-2015)“…•Ecology is an underexploited science in the study of crop evolution.•A framework is provided to analyze ecological causes and effects of domestication.•Single…”
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Human impacts in African savannas are mediated by plant functional traits
Published in The New phytologist (01-10-2018)“…Tropical savannas have a ground cover dominated by C4 grasses, with fire and herbivory constraining woody cover below a rainfall-based potential. The savanna…”
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evolutionary ecology of C₄ plants
Published in The New phytologist (01-12-2014)“…765 I. 765 II. 767 III. 768 IV. 768 V. 770 VI. 771 VII. 773 VIII. 777 777 References 777 SUMMARY: C₄ photosynthesis is a physiological syndrome resulting from…”
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Water relations traits of C₄ grasses depend on phylogenetic lineage, photosynthetic pathway, and habitat water availability
Published in Journal of experimental botany (01-02-2015)“…The repeated evolution of C₄ photosynthesis in independent lineages has resulted in distinct biogeographical distributions in different phylogenetic lineages…”
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origin of the savanna biome
Published in Global change biology (01-11-2006)“…Savannas are a major terrestrial biome, comprising of grasses with the C₄ photosynthetic pathway and trees with the C₃ type. This mixed grass-tree biome…”
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Lateral transfers of large DNA fragments spread functional genes among grasses
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-03-2019)“…A fundamental tenet of multicellular eukaryotic evolution is that vertical inheritance is paramount, with natural selection acting on genetic variants…”
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Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C₄ photosynthesis in grasses
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-01-2013)“…C ₄ photosynthesis is a series of anatomical and biochemical modifications to the typical C ₃ pathway that increases the productivity of plants in warm, sunny,…”
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Ecological selection pressures for C4 photosynthesis in the grasses
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-05-2009)“…lineages. The evidence from our three complementary analyses is consistent with the hypothesis that evolutionary selection for C…”
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Mesophyll porosity is modulated by the presence of functional stomata
Published in Nature communications (27-06-2019)“…The formation of stomata and leaf mesophyll airspace must be coordinated to establish an efficient and robust network that facilitates gas exchange for…”
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Phylogenomics indicates the "living fossil" Isoetes diversified in the Cenozoic
Published in PloS one (18-06-2020)“…The fossil record provides an invaluable insight into the temporal origins of extant lineages of organisms. However, establishing the relationships between…”
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A global database of C4 photosynthesis in grasses
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Land degradation in South Africa: Justice and climate change in tension
Published in People and nature (Hoboken, N.J.) (01-10-2021)“…Land degradation is a global problem impacting biodiversity and livelihoods, with profound effects on resource‐based livelihoods. As such, it impedes progress…”
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C4 photosynthesis and the economic spectra of leaf and root traits independently influence growth rates in grasses
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-09-2020)“…Photosynthetic pathway is an important cause of growth rate variation between species such that the enhanced carbon uptake of C4 species leads to faster growth…”
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Functional traits differ between cereal crop progenitors and other wild grasses gathered in the Neolithic fertile crescent
Published in PloS one (28-01-2014)“…The reasons why some plant species were selected as crops and others were abandoned during the Neolithic emergence of agriculture are poorly understood. We…”
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Fire and fire-adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene
Published in The New phytologist (01-08-2012)“…Large proportions of the Earth's land surface are covered by biomes dominated by C4 grasses. These C4-dominated biomes originated during the late Miocene, 3–8…”
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Towards an integrative model of C₄ photosynthetic subtypes: insights from comparative transcriptome analysis of NAD-ME, NADP-ME, and PEP-CK C4 species
Published in Journal of experimental botany (01-07-2014)“…C₄ photosynthesis affords higher photosynthetic carbon conversion efficiency than C₃ photosynthesis and it therefore represents an attractive target for…”
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Partitioning the Components of Relative Growth Rate: How Important Is Plant Size Variation?
Published in The American naturalist (01-12-2010)“…Plant growth plays a key role in the functioning of the terrestrial biosphere, and there have been substantial efforts to understand why growth varies among…”
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Leaf anatomy explains the strength of C4 activity within the grass species Alloteropsis semialata
Published in Plant, cell and environment (01-08-2023)“…C4 photosynthesis results from anatomical and biochemical characteristics that together concentrate CO2 around ribulose‐1,5‐bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase…”
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Ecophysiological traits in C₃ and C₄ grasses: a phylogenetically controlled screening experiment
Published in The New phytologist (01-02-2010)“…Experimental evidence demonstrates a higher efficiency of water and nitrogen use in C₄ compared with C₃ plants, which is hypothesized to drive differences in…”
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