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    How can we make plants grow faster? A source–sink perspective on growth rate by White, Angela C., Rogers, Alistair, Rees, Mark, Osborne, Colin P.

    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 by Milla, Rubén, Osborne, Colin P., Turcotte, Martin M., Violle, Cyrille

    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 by Osborne, Colin P., Charles‐Dominique, Tristan, Stevens, Nicola, Bond, William J., Midgley, Guy, Lehmann, Caroline E. R.

    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 by Christin, Pascal‐Antoine, Osborne, Colin P

    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 by Liu, Hui, Osborne, Colin P.

    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 by BEERLING, DAVID J, OSBORNE, COLIN P

    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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    Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C₄ photosynthesis in grasses by Christin, Pascal-Antoine, Osborne, Colin P., Chatelet, David S., Columbus, J. Travis, Besnard, Guillaume, Hodkinson, Trevor R., Garrison, Laura M., Vorontsova, Maria S., Edwards, Erika J.

    “…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 by Osborne, Colin P., Freckleton, Robert P.

    “…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 by Lundgren, Marjorie R., Mathers, Andrew, Baillie, Alice L., Dunn, Jessica, Wilson, Matthew J., Hunt, Lee, Pajor, Radoslaw, Fradera-Soler, Marc, Rolfe, Stephen, Osborne, Colin P., Sturrock, Craig J., Gray, Julie E., Mooney, Sacha J., Fleming, Andrew J.

    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 by Wood, Daniel, Besnard, Guillaume, Beerling, David J, Osborne, Colin P, Christin, Pascal-Antoine

    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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    Land degradation in South Africa: Justice and climate change in tension by Mani, Suma, Osborne, Colin P., Cleaver, Frances

    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 by Simpson, Kimberley J., Bennett, Christopher, Atkinson, Rebecca R. L., Mockford, Emily J., McKenzie, Scott, Freckleton, Robert P., Thompson, Ken, Rees, Mark, Osborne, Colin P., Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Yoann

    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 by Cunniff, Jennifer, Wilkinson, Sarah, Charles, Michael, Jones, Glynis, Rees, Mark, Osborne, Colin P

    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 by Scheiter, Simon, Higgins, Steven I., Osborne, Colin P., Bradshaw, Catherine, Lunt, Dan, Ripley, Brad S., Taylor, Lyla L., Beerling, David J.

    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 by Bräutigam, Andrea, Schliesky, Simon, Külahoglu, Canan, Osborne, Colin P, Weber, Andreas P.M

    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? by Rees, Mark, Osborne, Colin P., Woodward, F. Ian, Hulme, Stephen P., Turnbull, Lindsay A., Taylor, Samuel H.

    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 by Alenazi, Ahmed S., Bianconi, Matheus E., Middlemiss, Ella, Milenkovic, Vanja, Curran, Emma V., Sotelo, Graciela, Lundgren, Marjorie R., Nyirenda, Florence, Pereira, Lara, Christin, Pascal‐Antoine, Dunning, Luke T., Osborne, Colin P.

    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 by Taylor, Samuel H, Hulme, Stephen P, Rees, Mark, Ripley, Brad S, Ian Woodward, F, Osborne, Colin P

    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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