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The response of crops to CO2 enrichment represents an issue of major concer
n both for scientists and for policymakers. In a concerted programme funded
by the Commission of the European Communities, a Europe-wide experimental
and modeling study was carried out to investigate the effects of increasing
atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and of environmental stresses such as ozon
e or water/nutrient shortage, under different climatic conditions on wheat
(Triticum aestivum L.). This contribution describes the experimental networ
k and the standard protocol set-up for the assessments which served to impr
ove and to validate process-orientated wheat growth simulation models. (C)
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