Major improvements in crop yield are needed to keep pace with population growth and
climate change. While plant breeding efforts have greatly benefited from advances in …

Drought is a major environmental stress threatening wheat productivity worldwide. Global
climate models predict changed precipitation patterns with frequent episodes of drought …

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 …

Lower canopy temperature (CT), resulting from increased stomatal conductance, has been
associated with increased yield in wheat. Historically, CT has been measured with hand …

In recent years, wheat yield per hectare appears to have reached a plateau, leading to
concerns for future food security with an increasing world population. Since its invention …

Stomata are the site of CO2 exchange for water in a leaf. Variation in stomatal control offers
promise in genetic improvement of transpiration and photosynthetic rates to improve wheat …

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 …

The ability to avoid dehydration is a drought resistance mechanism becoming increasingly
more important even in temperate regions. In wheat, dehydration avoidance can be …

The rapid development of genomic technology has made high throughput genotyping widely
accessible but the associated high throughput phenotyping is now the major limiting factor in …

Field evaluation of germplasm for performance under water and heat stress is challenging.
Field environments are variable and unpredictable, and genotype× environment interactions …