Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important crops worldwide. Given a growing
global population coupled with increasingly challenging cultivation conditions, facilitating …

Crop yield must increase to keep pace with growing global demand. Past increases in crop
production have rarely been attributable to an individual innovation but have occurred when …

Winter wheat cultivars are defined as those that have an obligate vernalisation requirement
that must be met before they will progress from the vegetative to reproductive phase of …

Context Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) adaptation is highly dependent on crop lifecycle
duration, particularly the time at which flowering occurs in a specific environment. Frost, low …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a global staple crop vital for human nutrition. Heading
date (HD) and flowering date (FD) are critical traits influencing wheat growth, development …

Improving water-use efficiency by incorporating drought avoidance traits into new wheat
varieties is an important objective for wheat breeding in water-limited environments. This …

Increasing rapeseed yield has always been a primary goal of rapeseed research and
breeding. However, flowering time is a prerequisite for stable rapeseed yield and …

Flowering time of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a critical determinant of grain yield. Frost,
drought and heat stresses from either overly early or overly late flowering can inflict …

Farmers in northwestern and central India have been exploring to sow their wheat much
earlier (October) than normal (November) to sustain productivity by escaping terminal heat …

Improvement of grain yield has been the primary goal of many wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
breeding programs. Yield, nevertheless, has a complex genetic architecture which imposes …