Achieving yield gains in wheat

Plant, Cell and Environment

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1799-1823

  Reynolds, Matthew ^a   Foulkes, John ^b   Furbank, Robert ^c   Griffiths, Simon ^d   King, Julie ^b   Murchie, Erik ^b   Parry, Martin ^e   Slafer, Gustavo ^f  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Food security; Genetic resources; HI; Partitioning; Photosynthesis; Physiological breeding; RUE; Wheat Yield Consortium

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPLAST; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP YIELD; DEMAND ANALYSIS; DRY MATTER; FERTILITY; FOOD SECURITY; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENOTYPE; HARVESTING; LIGHT USE EFFICIENCY; PHENOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOINHIBITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SUSTAINABILITY; WHEAT;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WHEAT;

BIOMASS; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRITICUM;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84865865111     PISSN: 01407791     EISSN: 13653040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2012.02588.x     Document Type: Article

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