@article{c91bf55b9be14b64814a33fc86ff55ce,
title = "Impacts of elevated atmospheric CO2 on nutrient content of important food crops",
abstract = "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.",
author = "Dietterich, {Lee H.} and Antonella Zanobetti and Itai Kloog and Peter Huybers and Leakey, {Andrew D.B.} and Bloom, {Arnold J.} and Eli Carlisle and Nimesha Fernando and Glenn Fitzgerald and Toshihiro Hasegawa and Holbrook, {N. Michele} and Nelson, {Randall L.} and Robert Norton and Ottman, {Michael J.} and Victor Raboy and Hidemitsu Sakai and Sartor, {Karla A.} and Joel Schwartz and Saman Seneweera and Yasuhiro Usui and Satoshi Yoshinaga and Myers, {Samuel S.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank H. Nakamura, T. Tokida, and C. Zhu for contributions to the RiceFACE project. We thank the following for financial support of this work: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Winslow Foundation; the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture (Australia), the International Plant Nutrition Institute, (Australia), the Grains Research and Development Corporation (Australia), the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan); the National Science Foundation (NSF IOS-13-58675); USDA NIFA 2008-35100-044459; research at SoyFACE was supported by the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, which also provided support via the Small Grains and Potato Research Unit, Aberdeen ID; Illinois Council for Food and Agricultural Research (CFAR); Department of Energy{\textquoteright}s Office of Science (BER) Midwestern Regional Center of the National Institute for Climatic Change Research at Michigan Technological University, under Award Number DEFC02- 06ER64158; and the National Research Initiative of Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Grant no. 2010-65114-20343 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Early stages of this work received support from Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health Award 8UL1TR000170-05). Samuel S. Myers had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.",
year = "2015",
month = jul,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1038/sdata.2015.36",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "2",
journal = "Scientific Data",
issn = "2052-4463",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}