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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Carbon monoxide (CO) is an important reactive trace gas in the atmosphere, while its sources and sinks in the biosphere are only poorly understood. Emissions of CO have been reported from a wide range of soil-plant systems. However, soils are generally considered as a sink of CO due to microbial oxidation processes. We measured CO fluxes by micrometeorological eddy covariance method from a bioenergy crop (reed canary grass) in Eastern Finland over April to November 2011. Continuous flux measurements allowed us to assess the seasonal and diurnal variability, and to compare the CO fluxes to simultaneously measured CO<sub>2</sub>, N<sub>2</sub>O and heat fluxes as well as relevant meteorological, soil and plant variables in order to investigate factors driving the CO exchange. <br><br> The reed canary grass crop was a net source of CO from mid-April to mid-June, and a net sink throughout the rest of the measurement period from July to November 2011. CO fluxes had a distinct diurnal pattern with a net CO uptake in the night and an emission during the daytime with a maximum emission at noon. This pattern was most pronounced during the spring and early summer, during which the most significant relationships were found between daytime CO fluxes and global radiation, net radiation, sensible heat flux, soil heat flux, relative humidity and net ecosystem exchange. The strong positive correlation between CO fluxes and radiation suggests towards abiotic CO production processes, whereas, the relationship of CO fluxes with net ecosystem exchange indicates towards biotic CO formation during crop growth. The study shows a clear need for detailed process-studies accompanied with continuous flux measurements of CO exchange to improve the understanding of the processes associated with CO exchange.</p>