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SUBMITTER: Dong J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6104417 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in plant science 20180815
Elevated atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> (eCO<sub>2</sub>) enhances the yield of vegetables and could also affect their nutritional quality. We conducted a meta-analysis using 57 articles consisting of 1,015 observations and found that eCO<sub>2</sub> increased the concentrations of fructose, glucose, total soluble sugar, total antioxidant capacity, total phenols, total flavonoids, ascorbic acid, and calcium in the edible part of vegetables by 14.2%, 13.2%, 17.5%, 59.0%, 8.9%, 45.5%, 9.5%, and 8.2%, ...[more]