Percent Dry Weight (Biomass) Increases for
300, 600 and 900 ppm Increases in the Air's CO2 Concentration:


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Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam. [Sweet Potato]


Statistics
 
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm
 Number of Results
8
1
 
 Arithmetic Mean
35.8%
148%
 
 Standard Error
7.1%
0
 

Individual Experiment Results

Journal References

Experimental Conditions
300 ppm
600 ppm
900 ppm

Bhattacharya et al. (1985)

pots (3.7 liter)
74%

148%

 

Bhattacharya et al. (1988)

pots (3.5 liter), field, open-top chambers
33%

 

 

Bhattacharya et al. (1990)

pots (18.8 kg soil), water-stressed
5%

 

 

Bhattacharya et al. (1990)

pots (18.8 kg soil), well-watered
40%

 

 

Morison and Gifford (1984)

pots (18.8 kg soil), well-watered
40%

 

 

Saminathan et al. (2018)

Total plant biomass after 97 days of well-watered (100% of field capacity) and fertilized plants grown in sunlit Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Research (SPAR) controlled-environment chambers; cv Beauregard (B14)
46%

 

 

Saminathan et al. (2018)

Total plant biomass after 97 days of fertilized and water-limited (40% of field capacity from day 41-97) plants grown in sunlit Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Research (SPAR) controlled-environment chambers; cv Beauregard (B14)
38%

 

 

Teixeira da Silva et al. (2005)

Single-node explants grown for five weeks in vitro within culture vessels supplied with a 3% sugar-containing agar
10%

 

 

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