Contents Summary 35 I. Introduction 35 II. Nitrogen acquisition and assimilation 36 III. Root‐
to‐shoot transport of nitrogen 38 IV. Nitrogen storage pools in vegetative tissues 39 V …

C and N are the most important essential elements constituting organic compounds in
plants. The shoots and roots depend on each other by exchanging C and N through the …

Scaling current cereal production to a growing global population will be a challenge. Wheat
supplies approximately one-fifth of the calories and protein for human diets. Vertical farming …

Asymmetry of investment in crop research leads to knowledge gaps and lost opportunities to
accelerate genetic gain through identifying new sources and combinations of traits and …

Costs of defense are central to our understanding of interactions between organisms and
their environment, and defensive phenotypes of plants have long been considered to be …

For seed crops, yield is the cumulative result of both source and sink strength for
photoassimilates and nutrients over the course of seed development. Source strength for …

Starch commands a central role in the carbon budget of the majority of plants on earth, and
its biological role changes during development and in response to the environment …

Agricultural cropping systems and pasture comprise one third of the world's arable land and
have the potential to draw down a considerable amount of atmospheric CO 2 for storage as …

Identifying traits for improving sink strength is a bottleneck to increasing wheat yield. The
interacting processes determining sink strength and yield potential are reviewed and …

With unfavourable climate changes and an increasing global population, there is a great
need for more productive and stress-tolerant crops. As traditional methods of crop …