Drought is the most significant environmental stress in agriculture worldwide and improving
yield under drought is a major goal of plant breeding. A review of breeding progress pointed …

The need to accelerate breeding for increased yield potential and better adaptation to
drought and other abiotic stresses is an issue of increasing urgency. As the population …

Increasing the speed of breeding to enhance crop productivity and adaptation to abiotic
stresses is urgently needed. The perception that a second Green Revolution should be …

Nitrogen fertilizer represents a significant cost of production for the grower and may also
have environmental impacts through nitrate leaching, use of fossil fuels for manufacture and …

Despite the intensive management practices available to modern agriculture, drought and
salinity are still major constraints on crop production and food security. Yield losses to …

This review concerns ear photosynthesis and its contribution to grain filling in C3 cereals.
Ear photosynthesis is quantitatively important to grain filling, particularly in dry areas where …

In this review, we will discuss physiological traits of C3 cereals related to water use
efficiency (WUE) in Mediterranean environments, from leaf (WUEinstantaneous) to crop …

In durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) the improvement of yield stability represents an
important component for agricultural progress worldwide. This work reports on the …

Water limitation is a major production constraint for sugarcane worldwide. However, to date,
there has been little investigation of patterns of genetic variation in the response to water …

It is frequently assumed that durum wheat is more tolerant to stress than bread wheat.
Unfortunately few research papers compare the performance of both species side-by-side …