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J. Ryan Stewart

Professor, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Brigham Young University
Verified email at byu.edu
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A roadmap for research on crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) to enhance sustainable food and bioenergy production in a hotter, drier world

X Yang, JC Cushman, AM Borland… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a specialized mode of photosynthesis that features
nocturnal CO 2 uptake, facilitates increased water‐use efficiency (WUE), and enables CAM …

Ecology and ecosystem impacts of common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica): a review

KS Knight, JS Kurylo, AG Endress, JR Stewart… - Biological …, 2007 - Springer
In this review, we synthesize the current knowledge of the ecology and impacts of Rhamnus
cathartica L., a shrub from Europe and Asia that is a successful invader in North America …

The ecology and agronomy of Miscanthus sinensis, a species important to bioenergy crop development, in its native range in Japan: a review

JR Stewart, YO Toma, FG Fernandez… - Gcb …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Among several candidate perennial taxa, Miscanthus× giganteus has been evaluated and
promoted as a promising bioenergy crop. Owing to several limitations, however, of the sterile …

Invasiveness potential of Miscanthus sinensis: implications for bioenergy production in the United States

LD Quinn, DJ Allen, JR Stewart - GCB Bioenergy, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Miscanthus sinensis (Anderss.) is a perennial grass species that has been grown widely as
an ornamental since the late 1800s and is now being considered for bioenergy production in …

Discovery of natural Miscanthus (Poaceae) triploid plants in sympatric populations of Miscanthus sacchariflorus and Miscanthus sinensis in southern Japan

A Nishiwaki, A Mizuguti, S Kuwabara… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Looming petroleum shortages and projected negative impacts of
human‐induced climate change may be partly alleviated by the development and use of …

The Gene Pool of Miscanthus Species and Its Improvement

EJ Sacks, JA Juvik, Q Lin, JR Stewart… - Genomics of the …, 2013 - Springer
For more than a thousand years, people have used Miscanthus from wild stands or
managed landscapes, to feed their livestock, roof their homes, make paper, dye …

[HTML][HTML] Agave as a model CAM crop system for a warming and drying world

JR Stewart - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
As climate change leads to drier and warmer conditions in semi-arid regions, growing
resource-intensive C 3 and C 4 crops will become more challenging. Such crops will be …

Genetic structure of Miscanthus sinensis and Miscanthus sacchariflorus in Japan indicates a gradient of bidirectional but asymmetric introgression

LV Clark, JR Stewart, A Nishiwaki… - Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Unilateral introgression from diploids to tetraploids has been hypothesized to be an
important evolutionary mechanism in plants. However, few examples have been definitively …

Genetic variation in Miscanthus × giganteus and the importance of estimating genetic distance thresholds for differentiating clones

K Głowacka, LV Clark, S Adhikari, J Peng… - GCB …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Miscanthus× giganteus (Mxg) is an important bioenergy feedstock crop, however, genetic
diversity among legacy cultivars may be severely constrained. Only one introduction from …

Carbon budget and methane and nitrous oxide emissions over the growing season in a Miscanthus sinensis grassland in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, Japan

YO Toma, FG Fernández, S Sato, M Izumi… - Gcb …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Species in the Miscanthus genus have been proposed as biofuel crops that have potential to
mitigate elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and nitrous oxide (N2O) and …