Water Use Efficiency as a Constraint and Target for Improving the Resilience and Productivity of C3 and C4 Crops

Andrew D. B. Leakey,John N. Ferguson,Charles P. Pignon,Alex Chi Wu,Zhenong Jin,G. L. Hammer,David B. Lobell

Water Use Efficiency as a Constraint and Target for Improving the Resilience and Productivity of C3 and C4 Crops

2019

Andrew D. B. Leakey
John N. Ferguson
Charles P. Pignon
Alex Chi Wu
Zhenong Jin
G. L. Hammer
David B. Lobell

The ratio of plant carbon gain to water use, known as water use efficiency (WUE), has long been recognized as a key constraint on crop production and an important target for crop improvement. WUE i...

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Botany
Psychological resilience
Biomass
Water-use efficiency
Drought tolerance
Biology
Agronomy
Transpiration
Water use
Crop
Photosynthesis

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