Impacts of elevated atmospheric CO2 on nutrient content of important food crops

Lee H. Dietterich; Antonella Zanobetti; Itai Kloog; Peter Huybers; Andrew D.B. Leakey; Arnold J. Bloom; Eli Carlisle; Nimesha Fernando; Glenn Fitzgerald; Toshihiro Hasegawa; N. Michele Holbrook; Randall L. Nelson; Robert Norton; Michael J. Ottman; Victor Raboy; Hidemitsu Sakai; Karla A. Sartor; Joel Schwartz; Saman Seneweera; Yasuhiro Usui; Satoshi Yoshinaga; Samuel S. Myers

doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.36

Impacts of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on nutrient content of important food crops

Lee H. Dietterich, Antonella Zanobetti, Itai Kloog, Peter Huybers, Andrew D.B. Leakey, Arnold J. Bloom, Eli Carlisle, Nimesha Fernando, Glenn Fitzgerald, Toshihiro Hasegawa, N. Michele Holbrook, Randall L. Nelson, Robert Norton, Michael J. Ottman, Victor Raboy, Hidemitsu Sakai, Karla A. Sartor, Joel Schwartz, Saman Seneweera, Yasuhiro UsuiSatoshi Yoshinaga, Samuel S. Myers

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One of the many ways that climate change may affect human health is by altering the nutrient content of food crops. However, previous attempts to study the effects of increased atmospheric CO₂ on crop nutrition have been limited by small sample sizes and/or artificial growing conditions. Here we present data from a meta-analysis of the nutritional contents of the edible portions of 41 cultivars of six major crop species grown using free-air CO₂ enrichment (FACE) technology to expose crops to ambient and elevated CO₂ concentrations in otherwise normal field cultivation conditions. This data, collected across three continents, represents over ten times more data on the nutrient content of crops grown in FACE experiments than was previously available. We expect it to be deeply useful to future studies, such as efforts to understand the impacts of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on crop macro- and micronutrient concentrations, or attempts to alleviate harmful effects of these changes for the billions of people who depend on these crops for essential nutrients.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	150036
Journal	Scientific Data
Volume	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.36
State	Published - Jul 21 2015

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Dietterich, L. H., Zanobetti, A., Kloog, I., Huybers, P., Leakey, A. D. B., Bloom, A. J., Carlisle, E., Fernando, N., Fitzgerald, G., Hasegawa, T., Holbrook, N. M., Nelson, R. L., Norton, R., Ottman, M. J., Raboy, V., Sakai, H., Sartor, K. A., Schwartz, J., Seneweera, S., ... Myers, S. S. (2015). Impacts of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on nutrient content of important food crops. Scientific Data, 2, Article 150036. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.36

Dietterich, LH, Zanobetti, A, Kloog, I, Huybers, P, Leakey, ADB, Bloom, AJ, Carlisle, E, Fernando, N, Fitzgerald, G, Hasegawa, T, Holbrook, NM, Nelson, RL, Norton, R, Ottman, MJ, Raboy, V, Sakai, H, Sartor, KA, Schwartz, J, Seneweera, S, Usui, Y, Yoshinaga, S & Myers, SS 2015, 'Impacts of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on nutrient content of important food crops', Scientific Data, vol. 2, 150036. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.36

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