Modelling the size and composition of fruit, grain and seed by process-based simulation models

New Phytologist

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 601-618

  Martre, Pierre ^a,b   Bertin, Nadia ^c   Salon, Christophe ^d,e   Génard, Michel ^c  

^a Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^c Domaine Saint Paul   (France)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Cereals; End use value; Fleshy fruits; Grain legumes; Growth; Metabolism; Oilseeds; Quality

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BIOPHYSICS; CEREAL; CYTOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HETEROGENEITY; LEGUME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; PHENOTYPE; SEED SIZE;

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CEREAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ENDOREDUPLICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT SEED; REVIEW;

ALGORITHMS; CEREALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOREDUPLICATION; ENVIRONMENT; FRUIT; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SEEDS;

EID: 79960555668     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03747.x     Document Type: Review

References (241)

1. Ackerman J, Fisher M, Amado R. 1992. Changes in sugars, acids, and amino acids during ripening and storage of apples (cv. Glockenapfel). Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry 40: 1131-1134.
2. Aguirrezábal LAN, Lavaud Y, Dosio GAA, Izquierdo NG, Andrade FH, Gonzalez LM. 2003. Intercepted solar radiation during seed filling determines sunflower weight per seed and oil concentration. Crop Science 43: 152-161.
3. Aguirrezábal LAN, Martre P, Pereyra-Irujo G, Izquierdo N, Allard V. 2009. Management and breeding strategies for the improvement of grain and oil quality. In: Sadras VO, Miralles DJ, eds. Crop physiology. Applications for genetic improvement and agronomy. San Diego, CA, USA: Academic Press, 387-421.
4. Allen MT, Prusinkiewicz P, DeJong TM. 2005. Using L-systems for modeling source-sink interactions, architecture and physiology of growing trees: the L-PEACH model. New Phytologist 166: 869-880.
5. Asseng S, Bar-Tal A, Bowden JW, Keating BA, Van Herwaarden A, Palta JA, Huth NI, Probert ME. 2002. Simulation of grain protein content with APSIM-Nwheat. European Journal of Agronomy 16: 25-42.
6. Barow M. 2006. Endopolyploidy in seed plants. Bioessays 28: 271-281.
7. Batchelor WD, Jones JW, Boote KJ. 1996. Comparisons of methods to compute peanut seed size distribution by crop growth models. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers 39: 737-744.
8. Baud S, Lepiniec L. 2010. Physiological and developmental regulation of seed oil production. Progress in Lipid Research 49: 235-249.
9. Bechtel DB, Wilson JD. 2003. Amyloplast formation and starch granule development in hard red winter wheat. Cereal Chemistry 80: 175-183.
10. Beemster GTS, Vercruysse S, De Veylder L, Kuiper M, Inzé D. 2006. The Arabidopsis leaf as a model system for investigating the role of cell cycle regulation in organ growth. Journal of Plant Research 119: 43-50.
11. Berger F, Grini PE, Schnittger A. 2006. Endosperm: an integrator of seed growth and development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 9: 664-670.
12. Bertheloot J, Andrieu B, Fournier C, Martre P. 2008. A process-based model to simulate nitrogen distribution in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) during grain-filling. Functional Plant Biology 35: 781-796.
13. Bertin N. 2005. Analysis of the tomato fruit growth response to temperature and plant fruit load in relation to cell division, cell expansion and DNA endoreduplication. Annals of Botany 95: 439-447.
14. Bertin N, Borel C, Brunel B, Cheniclet C, Causse M. 2003a. Do genetic make-up and growth manipulation affect tomato fruit size by cell number, or cell size and DNA endoreduplication? Annals of Botany 92: 415-424.
15. Bertin N, Bussières P, Génard M. 2006. Ecophysiological models of fruit quality: a challenge for peach and tomato. Acta Horticulturae 718: 633-645.
16. Bertin N, Génard M, Fishman S. 2003b. A model for an early stage of tomato fruit development: cell multiplication and cessation of the cell proliferative activity. Annals of Botany 92: 65-72.
17. Bertin N, Lecomte A, Brunel B, Fishman S, Génard M. 2007. A model describing cell polyploidization in tissues of growing fruit as related to cessation of cell proliferation. Journal of Experimental Botany 58: 1903-1913.
18. Bertin N, Martre P, Génard M, Quilot B, Salon C. 2010. Under what circumstances can process-based simulation models link genotype to phenotype for complex traits? Case-study of fruit and grain quality traits. Journal of Experimental Botany 61: 955-967.
19. Bevan M, Colot V, Hammond-Kosack M, Holdsworth M, Dezabala MT, Smith C, Grierson C, Beggs K. 1993. Transcriptional control of plant storage protein genes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 342: 209-215.
20. Blanco A, Pasqualone A, Troccoli A, Di Fonzo N, Simeone R. 2002. Detection of grain protein QTLs across environments in tetraploid wheats. Plant Molecular Biology 48: 615-623.
21. Boote KJ, Jones JW, Batchelor WD, Nafziger ED, Myers O. 2003. Genetic coefficients in the CROPGRO-Soybean model: links to field performance and genomics. Agronomy Journal 95: 32-51.
22. Boote KJ, Jones JW, Hoogenboom G. 1998. Simulation of crop growth: CROPGRO Model. In: Peart RM, Curry RB, eds. Agricultural systems modeling and simulation. New York, NY, USA: Marcel Dekker, 651-692.
23. Borisjuk L, Rolletschek H, Wobus U, Weber H. 2003. Differentiation of legume cotyledons as related to metabolic gradients and assimilate transport into seeds. Journal of Experimental Botany 54: 503-512.
24. Boshankian S. 1918. The mechanical factors determining the shape of the wheat kernel. Journal of the American Society of Agronomy 10: 205-209.
25. Boyer JS, Silk WK. 2004. Hydraulics of plant growth. Functional Plant Biology 31: 761-773.
26. Bradford KJ. 1994. Water stress and the water relations of seed development: a critical review. Crop Science 34: 1-11.
27. Brand MD. 1996. Top down metabolic control analysis. Journal of Theoretical Biology 182: 351-360.
28. Bravo JA, Fehr WR, Rodriguez de Cianzio S. 1980. Use of pod width for indirect selection of seed weight in soybeans. Crop Science 20: 507-510.
29. Bussières P. 1995. Dry matter and water import rate in the tomato fruit: a model incorporating the changes in sap viscosity and osmotic potential with temperature. Annals of Botany 75: 469-476.
30. Bussières P. 2002. Water transport in the young tomato fruit limited by pedicel resistance and calyx transpiration. Functional Plant Biology 29: 631-641.
31. Byefield GE, Upchurch RG. 2007. Effect of temperature on delta-9 stearoyl-ACP and microsomal omega-6 desaturase gene expression and fatty acid content in developing soybean seeds. Crop Science 47: 1698-1704.
32. Calderini DF, Slafer GA. 1998. Changes in yield and yield stability in wheat during the 20th century. Field Crops Research 57: 335-347.
33. Carceller JL, Aussenac T. 1999. Accumulation and changes in molecular size distribution of polymeric proteins in developing grains of hexaploid wheats: role of the desiccation phase. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 26: 301-310.
34. Carceller JL, Aussenac T. 2001. SDS-insoluble glutenin polymer formation in developing grains of hexaploid wheat: the role of the ratio of high to low molecular weight glutenin subunits and drying rate during ripening. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 28: 193-201.
35. Casey BN, Warthesen JJ, Miller LC. 1997. Effects of different wheat starch characteristics on mixing properties in a dough system. Cereal Foods World 42: 669.
36. Cassman KG. 1999. Ecological intensification of cereal production systems: yield potential, soil quality, and precision agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 96: 5952-5959.
37. Cassman KG. 2001. Crop science research to assure food security. In: Nösberger J, Geiger HH, Struik PC, eds. Crop science: progress and prospects. New York, NY, USA: CAB International, 33-51.
38. Causse M, Buret M, Robini K, Verschave P. 2003. Inheritance of nutritional and sensory quality traits in fresh market tomato and relation to consumer preferences. Journal of Food Science 68: 2342-2350.
39. Cavallini A, Natali L, Balconi C, Rizzi E, Motto M, Cionini G, Damato F. 1995. Chromosome endoreduplication in endosperm cells of two maize genotypes and their progenies. Protoplasma 189: 156-162.
40. Chaïb J, Lecomte L, Buret M, Causse M. 2006. Stability over genetic backgrounds, generations and years of quantitative trait locus (QTLs) for organoleptic quality in tomato. Theoretical Applied Genetics 112: 934-944.
41. Chang R. 2000. Physical chemistry for the chemical and biological sciences. Sausalito, CA, USA: University Science Books.
42. Chapman GW, Horvat RJ, Forbus WR. 1991. Physical and chemical changes during the maturation of peaches (cv. Majestic). Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry 39: 867-879.
43. Cheng FM, Zhang QF, Zhu HJ, Zhao NC, Wang F, Chen KM, Zhang GP. 2007. The difference in amylose content within a panicle as affected by the panicle morphology of rice cultivars. Journal of Cereal Science 46: 49-57.
44. Cheniclet C, Rong WY, Causse M, Frangne N, Bolling L, Carde J-P, Renaudin J-P. 2005. Cell expansion and endoreduplication show a large genetic variability in pericarp and contribute strongly to tomato fruit growth. Plant Physiology 139: 1984-1994.
45. Chenu K, Chapman SC, Tardieu F, McLean G, Welcker C, Hammer GL. 2009. Simulating the yield impacts of organ-level quantitative trait loci associated with drought response in maize: a "gene-to-phenotype" modeling approach. Genetics 183: 1507-1523.
46. Chenu K, Franck N, Lecoeur J. 2007. Simulations of virtual plants reveal a role for SERRATE in the response of leaf development to light in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 175: 472-481.
47. Chiaiese P, Ohkama-Ohtsu N, Molvig L, Godfree R, Dove H, Hocart C, Fujiwara T, Higgins TJV, Tabe LM. 2004. Sulphur and nitrogen nutrition influence the response of chickpea seeds to an added, transgenic sink for organic sulphur. Journal of Experimental Botany 55: 1889-1901.
48. Christophe A, Letort V, Hummel I, Cournède P, de Reffye P, Lecoeur J. 2008. A model-based analysis of the dynamics of carbon balance at the whole-plant level in Arabidopsis thaliana. Functional Plant Biology 35: 1147-1162.
49. Cieslak M, Seleznyova AN, Hanan J. 2011. A functional-structural kiwifruit vine model integrating architecture, carbon dynamics and effects of the environment. Annals of Botany 107: 747-764.
50. Ciliberto A, Tyson JJ. 2000. Mathematical model for early development of the sea urchin embryo. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 62: 37-59.
51. Cong B, Liu J, Tanksley SD. 2002. Natural alleles at a tomato fruit size quantitative trait locus differ by heterochronic regulatory mutations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99: 13606-13611.
52. Cosgrove DJ. 1993. Water uptake by growing cells: an assessment of the controlling roles of wall relaxation, solute uptake, and hydraulic conductance. International Journal of Plant Science 154: 10-21.
53. Dai ZW, Vivin P, Robert T, Milin S, Li SH, Génard M. 2009. Model-based analysis of sugar accumulation in response to source-sink ratio and water supply in grape (Vitis vinifera) berries. Functional Plant Biology 36: 527-540.
54. Daniel C, Triboi E. 2001. Effects of temperature and nitrogen nutrition on the accumulation of gliadins analysed by RP-HPLC. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 28: 1197-1205.
55. DellaPenna D, Last RL. 2006. Progress in the dissection and manipulation of plant vitamin E biosynthesis. Physiologia Plantarum 126: 356-368.
56. Dexter JE, Marchylo BA, MacGregor AW, Tkachuk R. 1989. The structure and protein composition of vitreous, piebald and starchy durum wheat kernels. Journal of Cereal Science 10: 19-32.
57. Drexler H, Spiekermann P, Meyer A, Domergue F, Zank T, Sperling P, Abbadi A, Heinz E. 2003. Metabolic engineering of fatty acids for breeding of new oilseed crops: strategies, problems and first results. Journal of Plant Physiology 160: 779-802.
58. Dudley JW, Clark D, Rocheford TR, LeDeaux JR. 2007. Genetic analysis of corn kernel chemical composition in the random mated 7 generation of the cross of generations 70 of IHP x ILP. Crop Science 47: 45-57.
59. Dyer JM, Stymne S, Green AG, Carlsson AS. 2008. High-value oils from plants. Plant Journal 54: 640-655.
60. Echarte MM, Angeloni P, Jaimes F, Tognetti J, Izquierdo NG, Valentinuz O, Aguirrezábal LAN. 2010. Night temperature and intercepted solar radiation additively contribute to oleic acid percentage in sunflower oil. Field Crops Research 119: 27-35.
61. Edgar BA, Orr-Weaver TL. 2001. Endoreplication cell cycles: more for less. Cell 105: 297-306.
62. Edwards MA, Osborne BG, Henry RJ. 2008. Effect of endosperm starch granule size distribution on milling yield in hard wheat. Journal of Cereal Science 48: 180-192.
63. Egli DB, Duncan WG, Crafts-Brandner SJ. 1987. Effect of physical restraint on seed growth in soybean. Crop Science 27: 289-294.
64. Engelen-Eigles G, Jones RJ, Phillips RL. 2000. DNA Endoreduplication in maize endosperm cells: the effect of exposure to short-term high temperature. Plant, Cell & Environment 23: 657-663.
65. Esteban AB, Sicardo MD, Mancha M, Martinez-Rivas JM. 2004. Growth temperature control of the linoleic acid content in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) seed oil. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 52: 332-336.
66. Evers JB, Vos J, Romero P, Yin X, van der Putten PEL, Kang MZ, Struik PC. 2007. Extending a functional-structural plant model of spring wheat with sub-models for photosynthesis and carbon distribution. In: Prusinkiewicz P, Hanan J, Lane B, eds. Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on functional-structural plant models. Napier, New Zealand: HortResearch. URL [last accessed 22 April 2011].
67. Evers JB, Vos J, Yin X, Romero P, van der Putten PEL, Struik PC. 2010. Simulation of wheat growth and development based on organ-level photosynthesis and assimilate allocation. Journal of Experimental Botany 61: 2203-2216.
68. Fishman S, Génard M. 1998. A biophysical model of fruit growth: simulation of seasonal and diurnal dynamics of mass. Plant, Cell & Environment 21: 739-752.
69. Fraser J, Egli DB, Leggett JE. 1982. Pod and seed development in soybean cultivars with differences in seed size. Agronomy Journal 74: 81-85.
70. Garcia D, Fitz Gerald JN, Berger F. 2005. Maternal control of integument cell elongation and zygotic control of endosperm growth are coordinated to determine seed size in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 17: 52-60.
71. Garcia-Diaz MT, Martinez-Rivas JM, Mancha M. 2002. Temperature and oxygen regulation of oleate desaturation in developing sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seeds. Physiologia Plantarum 114: 13-20.
72. Gardner TS, Dolnik M, Collins JJ. 1998. A theory for controlling cell cycle dynamics using a reversibly binding inhibitor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 95: 14190-14195.
73. Gary C, Barczi JF, Bertin N, Tchamitchian M. 1995. Simulations of individual organ growth and development on a tomato plant: a model and user-friendly interface. Acta Horticulturae 399: 199-205.
74. Génard M, Bertin N, Borel C, Bussieres P, Gautier H, Habib R, Lechaudel M, Lecomte A, Lescourret F, Lobit P et al. 2007. Towards a virtual fruit focusing on quality: modelling features and potential uses. Journal of Experimental Botany 58: 917-928.
75. Génard M, Gibert C, Bruchou C, Lescourret F. 2009. An intelligent virtual fruit model focussing on quality attributes. Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology SI: 157-163.
76. Génard M, Gouble B. 2005. ETHY. A theory of fruit climacteric ethylene emission. Plant Physiology 139: 531-545.
77. Génard M, Huguet JG. 1997. Modelling the effect of irrigation on peach fruit quality. Acta Horticulturae 449: 161-168.
78. Génard M, Lescourret F, Gomez L, Habib R. 2003. Changes in fruit sugar concentrations in response to assimilate supply, metabolism and dilution: a modeling approach applied to peach fruit (Prunus persica). Tree Physiology 23: 373-385.
79. Génard M, Reich M, Lobit P, Besset J. 1999. Correlations between sugar and acid content and peach growth. Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology 74: 772-776.
80. Génard M, Souty M. 1996. Modeling the peach sugar contents in relation to fruit growth. Journal of the American Society of Horticultural Science 121: 1122-1131.
81. Gendreau E, Hofte H, Grandjean O, Brown S, Traas J. 1998. Phytochrome controls the number of endoreduplication cycles in the Arabidopsis thaliana hypocotyl. Plant Journal 13: 221-230.
82. Gibert C, Lescourret F, Génard M, Vercambre G, Perez Pastor A. 2005. Modelling the effect of fruit growth on surface conductance to water vapour diffusion. Annals of Botany 95: 673-683.
83. Gillaspy G, Ben-David H, Gruissem W. 1993. Fruits: a developmental perspective. Plant Cell 5: 1439-1451.
84. Grafahrend-Belau E, Schreiber F, Koschutzki D, Junker BH. 2009. Flux balance analysis of barley seeds: a computational approach to study systemic properties of central metabolism. Plant Physiology 149: 585-598.
85. Grafius JE. 1978. Multiple characters and correlated response. Crop Science 18: 931-934.
86. Graham PH, Vance CP. 2003. Legumes: importance and constraints to greater use. Plant Physiology 131: 872-877.
87. Green AG. 1986. Effect of temperature during seed maturation on the oil composition of low-linolenic genotypes of flax. Crop Science 26: 961-965.
88. Greffeuille V, Abecassis J, Barouh N, Villeneuve P, Mabille F, Bar L'Helgouac'h C, Lullien-Pellerin V. 2007. Analysis of the milling reduction of bread wheat farina: physical and biochemical characterisation. Journal of Cereal Science 45: 97-105.
89. Groer C, Kniemeyer O, Hemmerling R, Kurth W, Becker H, Buck-Sorlin G. 2007. A dynamic 3D model of rape (Brassica napus L.) computing yield components under variable nitrogen fertilisation regimes. In: Prusinkiewicz P, Hanan J, Lane B, eds. Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on functional-structural plant models. Napier, New Zealand: HortResearch. URL.
90. Habib R. 2000. Modeling fruit acidity in peach trees effects of nitrogen and potassium nutrition. Acta Horticulturae 512: 141-148.
91. Hagan ND, Upadhyaya N, Tabe LM, Higgins TJV. 2003. The redistribution of protein sulfur in transgenic rice expressing a gene for a foreign, sulfur-rich protein. Plant Journal 34: 1-11.
92. Hammer GL, Butler DC, Muchow RC, Meinke H. 1996. Integrating physiological understanding and plant breeding via crop modelling and optimization. In: Cooper M, Hammer GL, eds. Plant adaptation and crop improvement. Wallingford, UK: CAB International, 419-441.
93. Hammer GL, van Oosterom EJ, McLean G, Chapman SC, Broad I, Harland P, Muchow RC. 2010. Adapting APSIM to model the physiology and genetics of complex adaptive traits in field crops. Journal of Experimental Botany 61: 2185-2202.
94. Haughn G, Chaudhury A. 2005. Genetic analysis of seed coat development in Arabidopsis. Trends in Plant Science 10: 472-477.
95. Hernandez-Sebastia C, Marsolais F, Saravitz C, Israel D, Dewey RE, Huber SC. 2005. Free amino acid profiles suggest a possible role for asparagine in the control of storage-product accumulation in developing seeds of low- and high-protein soybean lines. Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 1951-1963.
96. Ho QT, Verboven P, Verlinden BE, Herremans E, Wevers M, Carmeliet J, Nicolai BM. 2011. A three-dimensional multiscale model for gas exchange in fruit. Plant Physiology 155: 1158-1168.
97. Hobbs DH, Flintham JE, Hills MJ. 2004. Genetic control of storage oil synthesis in seeds of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 136: 3341-3349.
98. Hood EE, Murphy JM, Pendleton RC. 1993. Molecular characterization of maize extensin expression. Plant Molecular Biology 23: 685-695.
99. Hu X, Sullivan-Gilbert M, Gupta M, Thompson S. 2006. Mapping of the loci controlling oleic and linolenic acid contents and development of fad2 and fad3 allele-specific markers in canola (Brassica napus L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 113: 497-507.
100. Inze D, De Veylder L. 2006. Cell cycle regulation in plant development. Annual Review of Genetics 40: 77-105.
101. Ishimaru T, Matsuda T, Ohsugi R, Yamagishi T. 2003. Morphological development of rice caryopses located at the different positions in a panicle from early to middle stage of grain filling. Functional Plant Biology 30: 1139-1149.
102. Islam N, Upadhyaya NM, Campbell PM, Akhurst R, Hagan N, Higgins TJV. 2005. Decreased accumulation of glutelin types in rice grains constitutively expressing a sunflower seed albumin gene. Phytochemistry 66: 2534-2539.
103. Izquierdo N, Aguirrezábal LAN, Andrade F, Pereyra V. 2002. Night temperature affects fatty acid composition in sunflower oil depending on the hybrid and the phenological stage. Field Crops Research 77: 115-126.
104. Izquierdo N, Dosio GAA, Cantarero MG, Lujan J, Aguirrezábal LAN. 2008. Weight per grain, oil concentration, and solar radiation intercepted during grain filling in black hull and striped hull sunflower hybrids. Crop Science 48: 688-699.
105. Izquierdo NG, Aguirrezábal LAN. 2008. Genetic variability in the response of fatty acid composition to minimum night temperature during grain filling in sunflower. Field Crops Research 106: 116-125.
106. Izquierdo NG, Aguirrezábal LAN, Andrade FH, Cantarero MG. 2006. Modeling the response of fatty acid composition to temperature in a traditional sunflower hybrid. Agronomy Journal 98: 451-461.
107. Izquierdo NG, Aguirrezábal LAN, Andrade FH, Geroudet C, Valentinuz O, Pereyra Iraola M. 2009. Intercepted solar radiation affects oil fatty acid composition in crop species. Field Crops Research 114: 66-74.
108. Izquierdo NG, Masciloi S, Aguirrezábal LAN, Nolasco SM. 2007. Temperature influence during seed filling on tocopherol concentration in a traditional sunflower hydrid. Grasas y Aceites 58: 170-178.
109. Jamieson PD, Semenov MA. 2000. Modelling nitrogen uptake and redistribution in wheat. Field Crops Research 68: 21-29.
110. Jeuffroy MH, Ney B, Ourry A. 2002. Integrated physiological and agronomic modelling of N capture and use within the plant. Journal of Experimental Botany 53: 809-823.
111. Junker BH. 2004. Sucrose breakdown in the potato tuber. PhD thesis, Potsdam University, Germany.
112. Kang MS, Zuber MS. 1987. Grain dry-down studies in corn. In: Proceedings of the 42nd annual corn and sorghum industry and research conference. Washington, DC, USA: American Seed Trade Association, 220-226.
113. Kiniry JR, Wood CA, Spanel DA, Bockholt AJ. 1990. Seed weight response to decreased seed number in maize. Agronomy Journal 54: 98-1002.
114. Kladnik A, Chourey PS, Pring DR, Dermastia M. 2006. Development of the endosperm of Sorghum bicolor during the endoreduplication-associated growth phase. Journal of Cereal Science 43: 209-215.
115. Knake-Sobkowicz S, Marciniak K. 2005. Cellular accumulation of protein bodies and changes in DNA ploidy level during seed development of Lathyrus tuberosus L. Acta Biologica Cracoviensia Series Botanica 47: 147-157.
116. Kondorosi E, Kondorosi A. 2004. Endoreduplication and activation of the anaphase-promoting complex during symbiotic cell development. FEBS Letters 567: 152-157.
117. Konik-Rose C, Thistleton J, Chanvrier H, Tan I, Halley P, Gidley M, Kosar-Hashemi B, Wang H, Larroque O, Ikea J et al. 2007. Effects of starch synthase IIa gene dosage on grain, protein and starch in endosperm of wheat. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 115: 1053-1065.
118. Kris-Etherton PM, Yu S. 1997. Individual fatty acid effects on plasma lipids and lipoproteins: human studies. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 65: 1628S-1644S.
119. Lacointe A. 2000. Carbon allocation among tree organs: a review of basic processes and representation in functional-structural tree models. Annals of Forest Science 57: 521-533.
120. Landry J. 2002. A linear model for quantitating the accumulation of zeins and their fractions (α+δ, β&γ) in developing endosperm of wild-type and mutant maizes. Plant Science 163: 111-115.
121. Le Gal MF, Hallet JN, Rey L. 1984. DNA and protein content relationship in the cells of mature cotyledons of Pisum stavium. Protoplasma 120: 113-122.
122. Léchaudel M, Vercambre G, Lescourret F, Normand F, Génard M. 2007. An analysis of elastic and plastic fruit growth of mango in response to various assimilate supplies. Tree Physiology 27: 219-230.
123. Lee DR. 1990. A unidirectional water flux model of fruit growth. Canadian Journal of Botany 68: 1286-1290.
124. Lee H-C, Chen Y-J, Markhart AH, Lin T-Y. 2007. Temperature effects on systemic endoreduplication in orchid during floral development. Plant Science 172: 588-595.
125. Lee H-C, Chiou D-W, Chen W-H, Markhart AH, Chen Y-H, Lin T-Y. 2004. Dynamics of cell growth and endoreduplication during orchid flower development. Plant Science 166: 659-667.
126. Leiva-Neto JT, Grafi G, Sabelli PA, Dante RA, Woo Y, Maddock S, Gordon-Kamm WJ, Larkins BA. 2004. A dominant negative mutant of cyclin-dependent kinase A reduces endoreduplication but not cell size or gene expression in maize endosperm. Plant Cell 16: 1854-1869.
127. Lemontey C, Mousset-Déclas C, Munier-Jolain N, Boutin JP. 2000. Maternal genotype influences pea seed size by controlling both mitotic activity during early embryogenesis and final endoreduplication level/cotyledon cell size in mature seed. Journal of Experimental Botany 51: 167-175.
128. Lending CR, Larkins BA. 1989. Changes in the zein composition of protein bodies during maize endosperm development. Plant Cell 1: 1011-1023.
129. Léon-Kloosterziel KM, Keijzer CJ, Koornneef M. 1994. A seed shape mutant of arabidopsis that is affected in integument development. Plant Cell 6: 385-392.
130. Lescourret F, Ben Mimoun M, Génard M. 1998. A simulation model of growth at the shoot-bearing fruit level. I. Description and parameterization for peach. European Journal of Agronomy 9: 173-188.
131. Lescourret F, Blecher N, Habib R, Chadoeuf J, Agostini D, Pailly O, Vaissiere B, Poggi I. 1999. Development of a simulation model for studying kiwi fruit orchard management. Agricultural Systems 59: 215-239.
132. Lescourret F, Génard M. 2005. A virtual peach fruit model simulating changes in fruit quality during the final stage of fruit growth. Tree Physiology 25: 1303-1315.
133. Lescourret F, Génard M, Habib R, Fishman S. 2001. Variations in surface conductance to water vapor diffusion in peach fuit and its effects on fruit growth assessed by a simulation model. Tree Physiology 21: 735-741.
134. Lhuillier-Soundele A, Munier-Jolain N, Ney B. 1999. Dependence of seed nitrogen concentration on plant nitrogen availability during the seed filling in pea. European Journal of Agronomy 11: 157-166.
135. Liu H-F, Génard M, Guichard S, Bertin N. 2007. Model-assisted analysis of tomato fruit growth in relation to carbon and water fluxes. Journal of Experimental Botany 58: 3567-3580.
136. Liu J, Cong B, Tanksley SD. 2003. Generation and analysis of an artificial gene dosage series in tomato to study the mechanisms by which the cloned quantitative trait locus fw2.2 controls fruit size. Plant Physiology 132: 292-299.
137. Lobit P, Génard M, Soing P, Habib R. 2006. Modelling malic acid accumulation in fruits: relationships with organic acids, potassium, and temperature. Journal of Experimental Botany 57: 1471-1483.
138. Lobit P, Génard M, Wu BH, Soing P, Habib R. 2003. Modelling citrate metabolism in fruits: responses to growth and temperature. Journal of Experimental Botany 54: 2489-2501.
139. Lobit P, Soing P, Génard M, Habib R. 2002. Theoretical analysis of relationships between composition, pH, and titratable acidity of peach fruit. Journal of Plant Nutrition 25: 2775-2792.
140. Lockhart JA. 1965. An analysis of irreversible plant cell elongation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 8: 264-276.
141. Loomis RS, Rabbinge R, Ng E. 1979. Explanatory models in crop physiology. Annual Review of Plant Physiology 30: 339-367.
142. Lopez G, Favreau RR, Smith C, Costes E, Prusinkiewicz P, DeJong TM. 2008. Integrating simulation of architectural development and source-sink behaviour of peach trees by incorporating Markov chains and physiological organ function submodels into L-PEACH. Functional Plant Biology 35: 761-771.
143. Luquet D, Song YH, Elbelt S, This D, Clément-Vidal A, Périn C, Fabre D, Dingkuhn M. 2007. Model-assisted physiological analysis of Phyllo, a rice architectural mutant. Functional Plant Biology 34: 11-23.
144. Marcelis LFM, Heuvelink E. 2007. Concepts of modelling carbon allocation among plant organs. In: Vos J, Marcelis LFM, DeVisser PHB, Struik PC, Evers JB, eds. Functional-Structural Plant Modelling in Crop Production. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 103-111.
145. Marcelis LFM, Heuvelink E, Goudriaan J. 1998. Modelling biomass production and yield of horticultural crops: a review. Scientia Horticulturae 74: 83-111.
146. Martinez-Rivas JM, Sanchez-Garcia A, Sicardo MD, Garcia-Diaz MT, Mancha M. 2003. Oxygen-independent temperature regulation of the microsomal oleate desaturase (FAD2) activity in developing sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seeds. Physiologia Plantarum 117: 179-185.
147. Martre P, Jamieson PD, Semenov MA, Zyskowski RF, Porter JR, Triboi E. 2006. Modelling protein content and composition in relation to crop nitrogen dynamics for wheat. European Journal of Agronomy 25: 138-154.
148. Martre P, Porter JR, Jamieson PD, Triboi E. 2003. Modeling grain nitrogen accumulation and protein composition to understand the sink/source regulations of nitrogen remobilization for wheat. Plant Physiology 133: 1959-1967.
149. Matsushima S. 1967. Crop science in rice. Theory of yield determination and its adaptation. Tokyo, Japan: Fuji Publishing Co. Ltd.
150. Mavromatis T, Boote KJ, Jones JW, Wilkerson GG, Hoogenboom G. 2002. Repeatability of model genetic coefficients derived from soybean performance trials across different states. Crop Science 42: 76-89.
151. Mekhedov S, de Ilarduya OM, Ohlrogge J. 2000. Toward a functional catalogue of the plant genome. A survey of genes for lipid biosynthesis. Plant Physiology 122: 389-402.
152. Millet E. 1986. Relationships between grain weight and the size of floret cavity in the wheat spike. Annals of Botany 58: 417-423.
153. Millet E, Pinthus MJ. 1984. Effects of removing floral organs, light penetration and physical constraint on the development of wheat grains. Annals of Botany 53: 261-269.
154. Minchin PEH. 2007. Mechanistic modelling of carbon partitioning. In: Vos J, Marcelis LFM, DeVisser PHB, Struik PC, Evers JB, eds. Functional-structural plant modelling in crop production. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 113-122.
155. Moing A, Svanella L, Monet R, Rothan C, Just D, Diakou P, Gaudillère JP, Rollin D. 1998. Organic acid metabolism during the development of two peach cultivars. Acta Horticulturae 465: 425-432.
156. Munier-Jolain N, Ney B. 1998. Seed growth rate in grain legumes. II. Seed growth rate depends on cotyledon cell number. Journal of Experimental Botany 49: 1971-1976.
157. Munné-Bosch S, Falk J. 2004. New insights into the function of tocopherols in plants. Planta 218: 323-326.
158. Murata Y, Matsushima S. 1975. Rice. In: Evans LT, ed. Crop physiology. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 73-99.
159. Nafati M, Cheniclet C, Hernould M, Do PT, Fernie AR, Chevalier C, Gévaudant F. 2011. The specific overexpression of a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor in tomato fruit mesocarp cells uncouples endoreduplication and cell growth. Plant Journal 65: 543-556.
160. Nolasco SM, Aguirrezábal LAN, Crapiste G. 2004. Tocopherol oil concentration in field-grown sunflower is accounted for by oil weight per seed. Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society 81: 1045-1051.
161. Olsen OA. 2001. Endosperm development: cellularization and cell fate specification. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 52: 233-267.
162. Orth JD, Thiele I, Palsson BO. 2010. What is flux balance analysis? Nature Biotechnology 28: 245-248.
163. Oury FX, Berard P, Brancourt-Hulmel M, Depatureaux C, Doussinault G, Galic N, Giraud A, Heumez E, Lecomte C, Pluchard P et al. 2003. Yield and grain protein concentration in bread wheat: a review and a study of multi-annual data from a French breeding program. Journal of Genetics & Breeding 57: 59-68.
164. Peak NC, Imsande J, Shoemaker RC, Shibles R. 1997. Nutritional control of soybean storage protein. Crop Science 37: 498-503.
165. Pearson S, Hadley P, Wheldon AE. 1996. A stochastic model of truss set in a long-season tomato crop. Acta Horticulturae 417: 33-40.
166. Pereyra-Irujo GA, Aguirrezábal LAN. 2007. Sunflower yield and oil quality interactions and variability: analysis through a simple simulation model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 143: 252-265.
167. Pérez-Vich B, Fernández-Martínez JM, Grondona M, Knapp SJ, Berry ST. 2002. Stearoyl-ACP and oleoyl-PC desaturase genes cosegregate with quantitative trait loci underlying high stearic and high oleic acid mutant phenotypes in sunflower. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 104: 338-349.
168. Piper E, Boote K. 1999. Temperature and cultivar effects on soybean seed oil and protein concentrations. Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society 76: 1233-1241.
169. Priesack E, Gayler S. 2009. Agricultural crop models: concepts of resource acquisition and assimilate partitioning. In: Lüttge U, Beyschlag W, Büdel B, Francis D, eds. Progress in Botany, vol 70. Berlin, Germany: Springer, 195-222.
170. Prudent M, Lecomte A, Bouchet J-P, Bertin N, Causse M, Génard M. 2011. Combining ecophysiological modelling and quantitative trait locus analysis to identify key elementary processes underlying tomato fruit sugar concentration. Journal of Experimental Botany 62: 907-919.
171. Prusinkiewicz P, Allen M, Escobar-Gutierrez A, DeJong TM. 2007. Numerical methods for transport-resistance source-sink allocation models. In: Vos J, Marcelis LFM, DeVisser PHB, Struik PC, Evers JB, eds. Functional-structural plant modelling in crop production. Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 123-137.
172. Quek EMP, Sambanthamuthi R, Weber GW. 2005. Modelling of lipid biosynthesis pathways in oil palm. Preprint no. 44, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey. URL [last accessed 22 April 2011].
173. Quilot B, Génard M. 2008. Is competition between mesocarp cells of peach fruits affected by the percentage of wild species (Prunus davidiana) genome? Journal of Plant Research 121: 55-63.
174. Quilot B, Génard M, Kervella J, Lescourret F. 2004. Analysis of genotypic variation in fruit flesh total sugar content via an ecophysiological model applied to peach. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 109: 440-449.
175. Quilot B, Génard M, Lescourret F, Kervella J. 2005a. Simulating genotypic variation of fruit quality in an advanced peach ×Prunus davidiana cross. Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 3071-3081.
176. Quilot B, Kervella J, Génard M, Lescourret F. 2005b. Analysing the genetic control of peach fruit quality through an ecophysiological model combined with a QTL approach. Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 3083-3092.
177. Ramli US, Baker DS, Quant PA, Harwood JL. 2002a. Control analysis of lipid biosynthesis in tissue cultures from oil crops shows that flux control is shared between fatty acid synthesis and lipid assembly. Biochemical Journal 364: 393-401.
178. Ramli US, Baker DS, Quant PA, Harwood JL. 2002b. Control mechanisms operating for lipid biosynthesis differ in oil-palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) and olive (Olea europaea L.) callus cultures. Biochemical Journal 364: 385-391.
179. Ramli US, Salas JJ, Quant PA, Harwood JL. 2005. Metabolic control analysis reveals an important role for diacylglycerol acyltransferase in olive but not in oil palm lipid accumulation. FEBS Journal 272: 5764-5770.
180. Ramli US, Salas JJ, Quant PA, Harwood JL. 2009. Use of metabolic control analysis to give quantitative information on control of lipid biosynthesis in the important oil crop, Elaeis guineensis (oilpalm). New Phytologist 184: 330-339.
181. Ravel C, Martre P, Romeuf I, Dardevet M, El-Malki R, Bordes J, Duchateau N, Brunel D, Balfourier F, Charmet G. 2009. Nucleotide polymorphism in the wheat transcriptional activator Spa influences its pattern of expression and has pleiotropic effects on grain protein composition, dough viscoelasticity, and grain hardness. Plant Physiology 151: 2133-2144.
182. Rohwer JM, Botha FC. 2001. Analysis of sucrose accumulation in the sugar cane culm on the basis of in vitro kinetic data. Biochemical Journal 358: 437-445.
183. Rondanini D, Mantese A, Savin R, Hall AJ. 2006. Responses of sunflower yield and grain quality to alternating day/night high temperature regimes during grain filling: effects of timing, duration and intensity of exposure to stress. Field Crops Research 96: 48-62.
184. Rondanini D, Savin R, Hall AJ. 2003. Dynamics of fruit growth and oil quality of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) exposed to brief intervals of high temperature during grain filling. Field Crops Research 82: 79-90.
185. Rossouw D, Kossmann J, Botha FC, Groenewald JH. 2010. Reduced neutral invertase activity in the culm tissues of transgenic sugarcane plants results in a decrease in respiration and sucrose cycling and an increase in the sucrose to hexose ratio. Functional Plant Biology 37: 22-31.
186. Sabino MA, Pauchard L, Allain C, Colonna P, Lourdin D. 2006. Imbibition, desiccation and mechanical deformations of zein pills in relation to their porosity. European Physical Journal E 20: 29-36.
187. Sadras VO, Collins M, Soar CJ. 2008. Modelling variety-dependent dynamics of soluble solids and water in berries of Vitis vinifera. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research 14: 250-259.
188. Sadras VO, McCarthy MG. 2007. Quantifying the dynamics of sugar concentration in berries of Vitis vinifera cv. Shiraz: a novel approach based on allometric analysis. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research 13: 66-71.
189. Sadras VO, Stevens RM, Pech JM, Taylor EJ, Nicholas PR, McCarthy MG. 2007. Quantifying phenotypic plasticity of berry traits using a allometric-type approach: a case study on anthocyanins and sugars in berries of Cabernet Sauvignon. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research 13: 72-80.
190. Sala RG, Westgate ME, Andrade FH. 2007. Source/sink ratio and the relationship between maximum water content, maximum volume, and final dry weight of maize kernels. Field Crops Research 101: 19-25.
191. Sarmiento C, Garcés R, Mancha M. 1998. Oleate desaturation and acyl turnover in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) seed lipids during rapid temperature adaptation. Planta 205: 595-600.
192. Saudreau M, Marquier A, Adam B, Monney P, Sinoquet H. 2009. Experimental study of fruit temperature dynamics within apple tree crowns. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149: 362-372.
193. Saudreau M, Sinoquet H, Santin O, Marquier A, Adam B, Longuenesse JJ, Guilioni L, Chelle M. 2007. A 3D model for simulating the spatial and temporal distribution of temperature within ellipsoidal fruit. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 147: 1-15.
194. Schallau K, Junker BH. 2010. Simulating plant metabolic pathways with enzyme-kinetic models. Plant Physiology 152: 1763-1771.
195. Schruff MC, Spielman M, Tiwari S, Adams S, Fenby N, Scott RJ. 2006. The AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 2 gene of Arabidopsis links auxin signalling, cell division, and the size of seeds and other organs. Development 133: 251-261.
196. Schweizer L, Yerkdavis GL, Phillips RL, Srienc F, Jones RJ. 1995. Dynamics of maize endosperm development and DNA endoreduplication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 92: 7070-7074.
197. Schwender J, Ohlrogge J, Shachar-Hill Y. 2003. A flux model of glycolysis and the oxidative pentosephosphate pathway in developing Brassica napus embryos. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 29442-29453.
198. Scott WR, Appleyard M, Fellowes G, Kirby EJM. 1983. Effects of genotype and position in the ear on carpel and grain growth and mature grain weight of spring barley. Journal of Agricultural Science 100: 383-391.
199. Semenov MA, Martre P, Jamieson PD. 2009. Quantifying effects of simple wheat traits on yield in water-limited environments using a modelling approach. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149: 1095-1104.
200. Sexton PJ, Batchelor WD, Boote KJ, Shibles R. 1998a. Evaluation of CROPGRO for prediction of soybean nitrogen balance in a Midwestern environment. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers 41: 1543-1548.
201. Sexton PJ, Naeve SL, Paek NC, Shibles R. 1998b. Sulfur availability, cotyledon nitrogen:sulfur ratio, and relative abundance of seed storage proteins of soybean. Crop Science 38: 983-986.
202. Shen B, Sinkevicius K, Selinger D, Tarczynski M. 2006. The homeobox gene GLABRA2 affects seed oil content in Arabidopsis. Plant Molecular Biology 60: 377-387.
203. Shewry PR, Tatham AS, Halford NG. 2001. Nutritional control of storage protein synthesis in developing grain of wheat and barley. Plant Growth Regulation 34: 105-111.
204. Sinoquet H, Le Roux X, Adam B, Ameglio T, Daudet FA. 2001. RATP: a model for simulating the spatial distribution of radiation absorption, transpiration and photosynthesis within canopies: application to an isolated tree crown. Plant, Cell & Environment 24: 395-406.
205. Sobrino E, Tarquis AM, Cruz Diaz M. 2003. Modeling the oleic acid content in sunflower oil. Agronomy Journal 95: 329-334.
206. Song X-J, Huang W, Shi M, Zhu M-Z, Lin H-X. 2007. A QTL for rice grain width and weight encodes a previously unknown RING-type E3 ubiquitin ligase. Nature Genetics 39: 623-630.
207. Steer BT, Seiler GJ. 1990. Changes in fatty acid composition of sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seeds in response to time of nitrogen application, supply rates and defoliation. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 51: 11-26.
208. Steudle E. 2000. Water uptake by roots: effects of water deficit. Journal of Experimental Botany 51: 1531-1542.
209. Stevens MA, Kader AA, Albright M. 1979. Potential for increasing tomato flavor via sugar and acid contents. Journal of the American Society of Horticultural Science 104: 40-42.
210. Sugimoto-Shirasu K, Roberts K. 2003. "Big it up": endoreduplication and cell-size control in plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 6: 544-553.
211. Tabe L, Hagan N, Higgins TJV. 2002. Plasticity of seed protein composition in response to nitrogen and sulfur availability. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 5: 212-217.
212. Tang G-Q, Novitzky WP, Carol Griffin H, Huber SC, Dewey RE. 2005. Oleate desaturase enzymes of soybean: evidence of regulation through differential stability and phosphorylation. Plant Journal 44: 433-446.
213. Tardieu F. 2003. Virtual plants: modelling as a tool for the genomics of tolerance to water deficit. Trends in Plant Science 8: 9-14.
214. Tester M, Langridge P. 2010. Breeding technologies to increase crop production in a changing world. Science 327: 818-822.
215. Thévenot C, Simond-Cote E, Reyss A, Manicacci D, Trouverie J, Le Guilloux M, Ginhoux V, Sidicina F, Prioul J-L. 2005. QTLs for enzyme activities and soluble carbohydrates involved in starch accumulation during grain filling in maize. Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 945-958.
216. Thomas JMG, Boote KJ, Allen LH, Gallo-Meagher M, Davis JM. 2003. Elevated temperature and carbon dioxide effects on soybean seed composition and transcript abundance. Crop Science 43: 1548-1557.
217. Traber MG, Atkinson J. 2007. Vitamin E, antioxidant and nothing more. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 43: 4-15.
218. Trémolières A, Duback JP, Drapier D. 1982. Unsaturated fatty acids in maturing seeds of sunflower and rape: regulation by temperature and light intensity. Phytochemistry 21: 41-45.
219. Triboi E, Martre P, Triboi-Blondel A-M. 2003. Environmentally-induced changes of protein composition for developing grains of wheat are related to changes in total protein content. Journal of Experimental Botany 54: 1731-1742.
220. Triboi E, Triboi-Blondel AM. 2002. Productivity and grain or seed composition: a new approach to an old problem - invited paper. European Journal of Agronomy 16: 163-186.
221. Tucker GA. 1993. Introduction. In: Seymour GB, Taylor JE, Tucker GA, eds. Biochemistry of fruit ripening. London, UK: Chapman & Hall, 1-51.
222. Ugalde TD, Jenner CF. 1990. Route of substrate movement into wheat endosperm. II. Amino acids. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 17: 395-406.
223. Uys L, Botha FC, Hofmeyr J-HS, Rohwer JM. 2007. Kinetic model of sucrose accumulation in maturing sugarcane culm tissue. Phytochemistry 68: 2375-2392.
224. Vilhar B, Kladnik A, Blejec A, Chourey PS, Dermastia M. 2002. Cytometrical evidence that the loss of seed weight in the miniature1 seed mutant of maize is associated with reduced mitotic activity in the developing endosperm. Plant Physiology 129: 23-30.
225. Vincent JFV. 1991. Texture of plants and fruits. In: Vincent JFV, Lillford PJ, eds. Feeding and the texture of food. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 19-33.
226. 2+-calmodulin requirement in Vitis vinifera cells producing anthocyanins. Phytochemistry 53: 659-665.
227. Voelker T, Kinney AJ. 2001. Variations in the biosynthesis of seed-storage lipids. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 52: 335-361.
228. Vos J, Evers JB, Buck-Sorlin GH, Andrieu B, Chelle M, de Visser PHB. 2010. Functional-structural plant modelling: a new versatile tool in crop science. Journal of Experimental Botany 61: 2101-2115.
229. Walcroft AS, Lescourret F, Génard M, Sinoquet H, Le Roux X, Dones N. 2004. Does variability in shoot carbon assimilation within the tree crown explain variability in peach fruit growth? Tree Physiology 24: 313-322.
230. Wang H-W, Zhang B, Hao Y-J, Huang J, Tian A-G, Liao Y, Zhang J-S, Chen S-Y. 2007. The soybean Dof-type transcription factor genes, GmDof4 and GmDof11, enhance lipid content in the seeds of transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Plant Journal 52: 716-729.
231. Weber H, Borisjuk L, Wobus U. 2005. Molecular physiology of legume seed development. Annual Review of Plant Biology 56: 253-279.
232. Weber H, Salon C. 2002. Interactions between yield stability and seed composition. Grain Legumes 34: 16-17.
233. Wernecke P, Müller J, Dornbusch T, Wernecke A, Diepenbrock W. 2007. The virtual crop-modelling system 'VICA' specified for barley. In: Vos J, Marcelis LFM, de Visser PHB, Struik PC, Evers JB, eds. Functional-structural plant modelling in crop production. Wageningen, the Netherlands: Springer, 53-64.
234. Weselake RJ, Shah S, Tang M, Quant PA, Snyder CL, Furukawa-Stoffer TL, Zhu W, Taylor DC, Zou J, Kumar A et al. 2008. Metabolic control analysis is helpful for informed genetic manipulation of oilseed rape (Brassica napus) to increase seed oil content. Journal of Experimental Botany 59: 3543-3549.
235. Williams JP, Williams K, Khan MU. 1992. Low temperature-induced fatty acid desaturation in Brassica napus: thermal lability of the process. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Lipids and Lipid Metabolism 1125: 62-67.
236. Wu BH, Génard M, Lobit P, Longuenesse JJ, Lescourret F, Habib R, Li SH. 2007. Analysis of citrate accumulation during peach fruit development via a model approach. Journal of Experimental Botany 58: 2583-2594.
237. Yang L, Han Z, MacLellan WR, Weiss JN, Qu Z. 2006. Linking cell division to cell growth in a spatiotemporal model of the cell cycle. Journal of Theoretical Biology 241: 120-133.
238. Yin X, Struik PC, van Eeuwijk FA, Stam P, Tang J. 2005. QTL analysis and QTL-based prediction of flowering phenology in recombinant inbred lines of barley. Journal of Experimental Botany 56: 967-976.
239. Yin X, van Laar HH. 2005. Crop systems dynamics: an ecophysiological simulation model for genotype-by-environment interactions. Wageningen, the Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers.
240. Zhang W-H, Zhou Y, Dibley KE, Tyerman SD, Furbank RT, Patrick JW. 2007. Nutrient loading of developing seeds. Functional Plant Biology 34: 314-331.
241. Zhou Y, Setz N, Niemietz C, Qu H, Offler CE, Tyerman SD, Patrick JW. 2007. Aquaporins and unloading of phloem-imported water in coats of developing bean seeds. Plant, Cell & Environment 30: 1566-1577.