Claim · model-written summary
Irrigation under elevated CO2 increased leaf net photosynthetic rate (Pn) and intercellular CO2 concentration (Ci) of maize.
- Treatment
- irrigation under elevated [CO2] levelse1
- Outcome
- leaf net photosynthetic rate (Pn) and intercellular CO2 concentration (Ci)e1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Setting
- Jinzhou, Liaoning province, Northeast Chinae0
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Verbatim
e0“a manipulative experiment in Jinzhou, Liaoning province, Northeast China was performed”
e1“irrigation under elevated [CO2] levels increased the leaf net photosynthetic rate (Pn) and intercellular CO2 concentration (Ci) of maize”
Title
Fanchao Meng; Jiahua Zhang; Fengmei Yao; et al. PLoS ONE 2014. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098318
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 decreased stomatal conductance (Gs) and transpiration rate (Tr) of maize.
- Intervention effect Irrigation increased stomatal conductance (Gs) and transpiration rate (Tr) of maize at each CO2 level.
- Intervention effect Water use efficiency (WUE) of maize was higher in the natural precipitation treatment than in the irrigation treatment at elevated CO2.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 and irrigation increased maximum net photosynthetic rate (Pnmax) and light saturation points (LSP) of maize.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 and irrigation increased dark respiration (Rd) of maize.
- Intervention effect Irrigation under elevated CO2 enhanced plant height, leaf area and aboveground biomass of maize.
- Intervention effect Irrigation under elevated CO2 improved yield and ear characteristics of maize, except axle diameter.