… We are not aware of any work dealing with the negative effect of increased seed-yield on
future stored reserves. Our results support the proposal that there is competition between …

… increasing forage yield38. (The typically small increases in forage and seed yield observed
in perennial … Nitrate losses through subsurface tile drainage in conservation reserve program…

… reserves protected belowground and their greater access to more soil moisture, perennials
are also more resilient to temperature increases of … for perennials to achieve high seed yield. …

… -yield perennial crops could be options where higher-yield annuals cannot reliably achieve
full yields. In … the meager 1 metric ton/ha yields of annual grains common in such regions (8). …

… of propagation, with stem reserves and photosynthates allocated … For example, growth of
lower yielding perennial grain crops … of perennial grain crops can be substantially increased. …

… Plant breeders are increasing yields and improving agronomic traits in several perennial grain
crops… that can be used to increase the multifunctionality of perennial grain crops (figure 1). …

… A hysterisis model based on increasing and decreasing Pp was necessary to relate Pper to
Pp but a … In this thesis, seasonal changes in yield and the effects of perennial reserves on th~ …

… , perennial crops began to allocate more biomass belowground (Figure 3). In an effort to
increase yield… Long-term yields for perennial bioenergy grasses in the Midwest undershot initial …

… relative increase in seed yield of perennial genotypes caused by biomass increases after …
we asked, how much must perennial biomass increase to achieve total seed outputs similar …

… with increases in plant productivity and crop yield. Thus, perennial crop systems could
not only increase soil health, but also benefit directly from these increases in soil health. …