Increasing global population and climate change uncertainties have compelled increased
photosynthetic efficiency and yields to ensure food security over the coming decades …

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 …

Source traits are currently of great interest for the enhancement of yield potential; for
example, much effort is being expended to find ways of modifying photosynthesis. However …

Photosynthesis has become a major trait of interest for cereal yield improvement as
breeders appear to have reached the theoretical genetic limit for harvest index, the mass of …

Crop water use efficiency (WUE) has come into sharp focus as population growth and
climate change place increasing strain on the water used in cropping. Rainfed crops are …

Fifty years ago, Norman Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his
efforts to increase cereal production. The changes, which became known as the 'Green …

Abstract Traditional “Green Revolution” cereal breeding strategies to improve yield are now
reaching a plateau in our principal global food crop rice. Photosynthesis has now become a …

High nitrogen application aimed at increasing crop yield is offset by higher production costs
and negative environmental consequences. For wheat, only one third of the applied nitrogen …

Improvement of photosynthetic traits in crops to increase yield potential and crop resilience
has recently become a major breeding target. Synthetic biology and genetic technologies …

Background The need for rapid in-field measurement of key traits contributing to yield over
many thousands of genotypes is a major roadblock in crop breeding. Recently, leaf …