Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Literature review › peer-review
<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 10/2015 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | New Phytologist |
Issue number | 1 |
Volume | 208 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Pages (from-to) | 66-72 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Systems-level analyses have become prominent tools for assessing the yield, viability, economic consequences and environmental impacts of agricultural production. Such analyses are well-developed for many commodity crops that are used for food and biofuel, but have not been developed for agricultural production systems based on drought-tolerant plants that use crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM). We review the components of systems-level evaluations, and identify the information available for completing such analyses for CAM cropping systems. Specific needs for developing systems-level evaluations of CAM agricultural production include: improvement of physiological models; assessment of product processing after leaving the farm gate; and application of newly available genetic tools to the optimization of CAM species for commercial production.