Food for Thought: Lower-Than-Expected Crop Yield Stimulation with Rising CO2 Concentrations

By S. Long, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Andrew D. B. Leakey, J. Nösberger, D. Ort. Science, 2006

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science

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Brief history of agricultural systems modeling (2017, positive): “Long et al. (2006) challenged the ﬁ ndings of crop models that had been developed using older data, particularly results suggesting that the positive fertilization effects of CO 2 would offset the negative effects of rising temperature and lower soil moisture.”
The Influence of Climate Change on Global Crop Productivity1 (2012, background): “Decades of plotlevel (Kim et al., 2007; Shimono et al., 2007; Markelz et al., 2011) and open-air field (Long et al., 2006; Wall et al., 2006; Zhu et al., 2011) experiments as well as simulation modeling exercises (Long, 1991; Brown and Rosenberg, 1997; Grant et al., 2004) have been dedicated toward…”
Climate Change and Global Food Systems: Potential Impacts on Food Security and Undernutrition. (2017, background): “Although the rising concentration of atmospheric CO2 is the primary driver of harmful anthropogenic climate change, it can also improve crop performance by increasing rates of photosynthesis and water use efficiency (93).”
Physiological characteristics of cassava tolerance to prolonged drought in the tropics: implications for breeding cultivars adapted to seasonally dry and semiarid environments (2007, background): “J. Plant Physiol., 19(4):257-286, 2007 PHYSIOLOGICAL TRAITS OF CASSAVA TOLERANCE TO DROUGHT Sharkawy (2004, 2005, 2006a,b) and Long et al. (2006) have shown that research based only on potted plants grown in greenhouses and in controlled cabinets, without the proper calibration in the field, is a…”
Climate change impact on China food security in 2050 (2012, background): “The rationale to consider CO2 fertilization is that the rise of atmospheric CO2 concentration has already been an observed fact and it will continue to rise in the foreseeable future, despite uncertainties about the magnitude of this rise (Lin et al. 2005; Long et al. 2006).”
Crops and climate change: progress, trends, and challenges in simulating impacts and informing adaptation. (2009, background): “Where a response to climate variability exists in observations, the possibility of simulating that response also exists.”
Climate Change, Agriculture And Poverty (2010, background): “This is due to the low responsiveness of C4 crops to increased CO2 concentrations (Long et al. 2006; Ainsworth et al. 2008) and their relatively high sensitivity to extreme heat (Schlenker and Lobell 2009; Schlenker and Roberts 2006).”
Genetic engineering for modern agriculture: challenges and perspectives. (2010, background): “Under optimal growth conditions, rising CO2 concentrations will increase net photosynthetic carbon assimilation in C3 plants with a concomitant increase in yield because Rubisco is not CO2 saturated at current atmospheric CO2 concentrations and because CO2 inhibits the oxygenation reactions and phot”
Cassava about‐FACE: Greater than expected yield stimulation of cassava (Manihot esculenta) by future CO2 levels (2012, background): “…study are puzzling because they are inconsistent with the notion that elevated [CO2] will stimulate C3 crop productivity (Leakey et al., 2009; Long et al., 2006) and alarming because cassava leaves are eaten for their pro- tein, and a higher leaf cyanide content suggests increased toxicity…”