Authors
Xiaohan Yang, John C Cushman, Anne M Borland, Erika J Edwards, Stan D Wullschleger, Gerald A Tuskan, Nick A Owen, Howard Griffiths, J Andrew C Smith, Henrique C De Paoli, David J Weston, Robert Cottingham, James Hartwell, Sarah C Davis, Katia Silvera, Ray Ming, Karen Schlauch, Paul Abraham, J Ryan Stewart, Hao‐Bo Guo, Rebecca Albion, Jungmin Ha, Sung Don Lim, Bernard WM Wone, Won Cheol Yim, Travis Garcia, Jesse A Mayer, Juli Petereit, Sujithkumar S Nair, Erin Casey, Robert L Hettich, Johan Ceusters, Priya Ranjan, Kaitlin J Palla, Hengfu Yin, Casandra Reyes‐García, José Luis Andrade, Luciano Freschi, Juan D Beltrán, Louisa V Dever, Susanna F Boxall, Jade Waller, Jack Davies, Phaitun Bupphada, Nirja Kadu, Klaus Winter, Rowan F Sage, Cristobal N Aguilar, Jeremy Schmutz, Jerry Jenkins, Joseph AM Holtum
Publication date
2015/8
Source
New Phytologist
Volume
207
Issue
3
Pages
491-504
Description
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a specialized mode of photosynthesis that features nocturnal CO2 uptake, facilitates increased water‐use efficiency (WUE), and enables CAM plants to inhabit water‐limited environments such as semi‐arid deserts or seasonally dry forests. Human population growth and global climate change now present challenges for agricultural production systems to increase food, feed, forage, fiber, and fuel production. One approach to meet these challenges is to increase reliance on CAM crops, such as Agave and Opuntia, for biomass production on semi‐arid, abandoned, marginal, or degraded agricultural lands. Major research efforts are now underway to assess the productivity of CAM crop species and to harness the WUE of CAM by engineering this pathway into existing food, feed, and bioenergy crops. An improved understanding of CAM has potential for high returns on …
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