C4 Grasses are Particularly Good at Growing in Hot, Dry Environments (IMAGE)

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)

C4 Grasses are Particularly Good at Growing in Hot, Dry Environments

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Grasses that use the C4 photosynthetic pathway -- like these tufts of Enneapogon scaber from Namibia -- are particularly good at growing in hot, dry environments.

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Photo by study co-author J. Travis Columbus, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Claremont Graduate University.

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