title: Improving ecophysiological simulation models to predict the impact of elevated atmospheric CO(2) concentration on crop productivity.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Process-based ecophysiological crop models are pivotal in assessing responses of crop productivity and designing strategies of adaptation to climate change. Most existing crop models generally over-estimate the effect of elevated atmospheric [CO2], despite decades of experimental research on crop growth response to [CO2].
  
  
  METHODS
  A review of the literature indicates that the quantitative relationships for a number of traits, once expressed as a function of internal plant nitrogen status, are altered little by the elevated [CO2]. A model incorporating these nitrogen-based functional relationships and mechanisms simulated photosynthetic acclimation to elevated [CO2], thereby reducing the chance of over-estimating crop response to [CO2]. Robust crop models to have small parameterization requirements and yet generate phenotypic plasticity under changing environmental conditions need to capture the carbon-nitrogen interactions during crop growth.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The performance of the improved models depends little on the type of the experimental facilities used to obtain data for parameterization, and allows accurate projections of the impact of elevated [CO2] and other climatic variables on crop productivity.
authors: Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, PO Box 430, 6700 AK Wageningen, The Netherlands. Xinyou.yin@wur.nl
authors: Xinyou
authors: X
authors: Yin
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000378:metabolism*; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000378:metabolism*; D057231:Climate Change; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism; D010788:Photosynthesis; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D054046:Plant Stomata / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D002244:Carbon; D009584:Nitrogen
keywords: Acclimation to elevated CO2; climate change; crop models; impact assessment; model improvement; nitrogen
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