Early development and enlargement of wheat floret primordia suggest a role of partitioning within spike to grain set

Field Crops Research

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-53

  Bancal, Pierre ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Floret survival; Grain number; Grain setting; Spike partitioning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CROP YIELD; FERTILITY; FLOWER; MORTALITY; PARTITIONING; PLANT BREEDING; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 55949119499     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2008.06.014     Document Type: Article

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