This review focuses on recent advances in some key areas of wheat physiology, namely
phasic development, determination of potential yield and water-limited potential yield …

Further improvements in wheat yields are critical, for which increases in grain number would
be required. In the recent past, higher grain number was achieved through increased growth …

The number of kernels per m2 (K) in well managed and watered wheat crops was studied
using results of experiments in Mexico and Australia in which short spring wheat cultivars …

Drought is a multidimensional stress affecting plants at various levels of their organization.
The effect of and plant response to drought at the whole plant and crop level is most …

This book, written as a text for degree level teaching, provides an introduction to the
physiological, biochemical and anatomical processes determining crop yields. It is divided …

In wheat, as in many other crops, the increase in genetic yield potential has resulted, so far,
mainly from a rise in the harvest index, that is, in the proportion of above-ground assimilates …

Improving biomass is an important goal for future genetic gains in yield potential in wheat,
but it will also be crucial to identify physiological traits to maximize harvest index (HI …

Further improvements to wheat yield potential will be essential to meet future food demand.
As yield is related to the number of fertile florets and grains, an understanding of the basis of …

Several authors have concluded that the main physiological changes produced by the
genetic improvement of bread wheat grain yield were an increased harvest index associated …

Shading treatments of 50% of the incident radiation were applied to the semidwarf wheat
cultivar Leones INTA before and after anthesis in two field experiments in Argentina in 1987 …