Raising yield potential in wheat
Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz Y Trigo · University of Nottingham · +4 more institutions
Abstract
Recent advances in crop research have the potential to accelerate genetic gains in wheat, especially if co-ordinated with a breeding perspective. For example, improving photosynthesis by exploiting natural variation in Rubisco's catalytic rate or adopting C(4) metabolism could raise the baseline for yield potential by 50% or more. However, spike fertility must also be improved to permit full utilization of photosynthetic capacity throughout the crop life cycle and this has several components. While larger radiation use efficiency will increase the total assimilates available for spike growth, thereby increasing the potential for grain number, an optimized phenological pattern will permit the maximum…
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- Yield (engineering)
- Agronomy
- Raising (metalworking)
- Environmental science
- Biology
- Mathematics
- Physics