Targets for Crop Biotechnology in a Future High-CO2 and High-O3 World1

@article{Ainsworth2008TargetsFC,
  title={Targets for Crop Biotechnology in a Future High-CO2 and High-O3 World1},
  author={Elizabeth A. Ainsworth and Alistair Rogers and Andrew D. B. Leakey},
  journal={Plant Physiology},
  year={2008},
  volume={147},
  pages={13 - 19}
}
Predictions of population growth outpacing agricultural production have been made for the past 200 years ([Malthus, 1817][1]; [Ehrlich, 1968][2]), and though world food supply has more than kept pace with demand, there are over 850 million malnourished people in the world, the vast majority in 
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It is suggested that selection under elevated ozone is needed to identify deleterious alleles in the world's largest commodity crop.
Modeling the effects of tropospheric ozone on wheat growth and yield
Ozone effects on crops and consideration in crop models
Understanding and improving global crop response to ozone pollution.
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This work provides the fundamental background and justification for breeding and biotechnological approaches for improving O3olerance in crops and identifies more promising phenotypes for O3 tolerance.
Synergistic action of tropospheric ozone and carbon dioxide on yield and nutritional quality of Indian mustard (Brassica juncea (L.) Czern.)
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Elevated ozone significantly decreased the oil and micronutrient content in mustard and removal of O3 from air in the charcoal-filtered treatment resulted in a significant increase in the same.
Impact of tropospheric ozone on crop growth and productivity - a review
This review presents tropospheric ozone (O3), an air pollutant affecting agriculture by reducing crop yield and deteriorating quality of produce. O3 enters leaves through stomata and diffuses within…
The effects of tropospheric ozone on net primary productivity and implications for climate change.
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The atmospheric chemistry governing tropospheric O( 3) mass balance, the effects of O(3) on stomatal conductance and net primary productivity, and implications for agriculture, carbon sequestration, and climate change are reviewed.
Greater antioxidant and respiratory metabolism in field-grown soybean exposed to elevated O3 under both ambient and elevated CO2.
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It was determined that soybean antioxidant metabolism increased with increasing [O(3)], in both ambient and elevated [CO(2]], and energetically expensive increases in antioxidant metabolism and tetrapyrrole synthesis at elevated [ O(3] were associated with greater transcript levels of enzymes involved in respiratory metabolism.
INCREASED CO2 DOES NOT COMPENSATE FOR NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON YIELD CAUSED BY HIGHER TEMPERATURE AND O3 IN BRASSICA NAPUS L.
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