ArticleAnnals of botany2023
The CAM lineages of planet Earth.
Article in Annals of botany, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Open questions on facultative C4-CAM photosynthesis in Portulaca.Journal of experimental botany · 2026Review
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- Clusia genomes shed light on the evolution and diversity of crassulacean acid metabolism physiotypes.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Convergence and parallelism in the evolution of plant metabolism.Journal of integrative plant biology · 2026Review
- Divergent Transcriptional Architectures Beyond Core CAM Genes in Facultative and Constitutive CAM Species in Tillandsia L.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Stronger expression of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) requires effective cuticular transpiration barriers but not necessarily strong succulence.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Diets and environments of late pleistocene pygmy and Columbian mammoths: Isotopic evidence from Southern California.PloS one · 2026Article
- Evolutionary Changes in Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) and Related Traits During the Diversification ofEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- CBiology · 2025Review
- Cryptic CAM photosynthesis in Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia, Y. jaegeriana).The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Rapid Climate Acclimation (Not Traits or Phylogeny) Drives Variation in Photosynthesis Temperature Response.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Synthetic crassulacean acid metabolism (SynCAM) for improving water-use efficiency in plants.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Regulation of Crassulacean acid metabolism at the protein level in Kalanchoë laxiflora.Plant physiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
background and scopeThe growth of experimental studies of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in diverse plant clades, coupled with recent advances in molecular systematics, presents an opportunity to re-assess the phylogenetic distribution and diversity of species capable of CAM. It has been more than two decades since the last comprehensive lists of CAM taxa were published, and an updated survey of the occurrence and distribution of CAM taxa is needed to facilitate and guide future CAM research. We aimed to survey the phylogenetic distribution of these taxa, their diverse morphology, physiology and ecology, and the likely number of evolutionary origins of CAM based on currently known lineages. RESULTS AND
conclusionsWe found direct evidence (in the form of experimental or field observations of gas exchange, day-night fluctuations in organic acids, carbon isotope ratios and enzymatic activity) for CAM in 370 genera of vascular plants, representing 38 families. Further assumptions about the frequency of CAM species in CAM clades and the distribution of CAM in the Cactaceae and Crassulaceae bring the currently estimated number of CAM-capable species to nearly 7 % of all vascular plants. The phylogenetic distribution of these taxa suggests a minimum of 66 independent origins of CAM in vascular plants, possibly with dozens more. To achieve further insight into CAM origins, there is a need for more extensive and systematic surveys of previously unstudied lineages, particularly in living material to identify low-level CAM activity, and for denser sampling to increase phylogenetic resolution in CAM-evolving clades. This should allow further progress in understanding the functional significance of this pathway by integration with studies on the evolution and genomics of CAM in its many forms.
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