Climate change is a long-lasting change in the weather arrays across tropics to polls. It is a
global threat that has embarked on to put stress on various sectors. This study is aimed to …

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 …

Wheat yield is frequently analysed in terms of yield components (spikes per m 2, grains per
spike, grain size), and correlations between components are commonly reported, but …

Studies across different crops demonstrated that grain or seed number per unit area (GN m–
2) is the dominant yield component. Although grains or seeds derive from floret or flower …

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 …

While an adequate supply of food can be achieved at present for the current global
population, sustaining this into the future will be difficult in the face of a steadily increasing …

Drought and heat stress cause losses in wheat productivity in major growing regions
worldwide, and both the occurrence and the severity of these events are likely to increase …

Key message Phenotypic and genetic analysis of six spike and kernel characteristics in
wheat revealed geographic patterns as well as long-term trends arising from breeding …

Most of the required increases in food production over the next decades are expected to be
achieved through increases in crop yield. As wheat is essential for food security it is worrying …

A better understanding of the effects of different source–sink ratio during the grain filling
period on grain growth may be relevant in order to further increase cereal grain yield. The …