Claim · model-written summary
Respiratory efficiency, particularly low root respiration relative to shoot mass, was more strongly associated with higher switchgrass yield.
- Taxon
- Switchgrass
Panicum virgatume0
- Organ / stage
- roote2
- Outcome
- yielde2
- Direction
- highere2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingValueQualifier
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Verbatim
e0“Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) is a perennial C4 grass”
e2“respiratory efficiency particularly low root respiration relative to shoot mass, was more strongly associated with higher yield”
Title
Gonzalez, Andrew M. Washington State University 2026. doi:10.7273/000007374
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Photochemical parameters such as ΦII and qL varied across switchgrass genotypes.
- Observation Photochemical parameters such as ΦII and qL were not strong predictors of switchgrass shoot biomass.
- Mechanism Switchgrass genotypes DVR3 and FLT1 achieved greater biomass through reduced respiratory costs and efficient nutrient use, despite moderate photosynthetic performance.
- Observation Principal component 1 delineates a trade-off between carbon investment in switchgrass biomass and respiratory carbon loss.
- Observation Ecotypic distinctions in switchgrass were observed along PC1.
- Observation Some upland switchgrass genotypes displayed trait profiles overlapping with lowland genotypes.