Claim · model-written summary
Elevated CO2 maintained higher turf quality, leaf water content and membrane stability in tall fescue under drought.
- Taxon
- tall fescue
Lolium arundinaceumt0 - Treatment
- elevated CO 2e0
- Outcome
- turf quality, leaf water content, and membrane stabilitye0
- Direction
- highere0
- Qualifier
- During drought stresse0
- Comparator
- ambient CO 2e0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“During drought stress, both species exposed to elevated CO 2 maintained higher turf quality, leaf water content, and membrane stability than plants at ambient CO 2 .”
t0“tall fescue [ Schedonorus arundinaceus (Schreb.) Dumort]”
Title
Cathryn Chapman; Patrick Burgess; Bingru Huang Crop Science 2021. doi:10.1002/csc2.20622
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 maintained higher turf quality, leaf water content and membrane stability in both grasses under drought.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 significantly increased stolon-node meristem viability in drought-stressed creeping bentgrass.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increased shoot biomass during creeping bentgrass rewatering.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increased turfgrass cover during creeping bentgrass rewatering.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 had no significant effect on crown meristem viability in drought-stressed tall fescue.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 had no significant effect on tall fescue shoot biomass during rewatering.
- Intervention effect Elevated CO2 had no significant effect on tall fescue cover during rewatering.