The rate with which crop yields per hectare increase each year is plateauing at the same
time that human population growth and other factors increase food demand. Increasing yield …

Nitrogen is an essential nutrient required in large quantities for the proper growth and
development of plants. Nitrogen is the most limiting macronutrient for crop production in …

Nitrogen fertilizer is the most used nutrient source in modern agriculture and represents
significant environmental and production costs. In the meantime, the demand for grain …

Light interception and radiation‐use efficiency (RUE) are essential components of plant
performance. Their genetic dissections require novel high‐throughput phenotyping …

The hypothesis that reducing chlorophyll content (Chl) can increase canopy photosynthesis
in soybeans was tested using an advanced model of canopy photosynthesis. The …

Canopy photosynthesis (Ac) describes photosynthesis of an entire crop field and the daily
and seasonal integrals of Ac positively correlate with daily and seasonal biomass …

Photosynthetic acclimation (photoacclimation) is the process whereby leaves alter their
morphology and/or biochemistry to optimize photosynthetic efficiency and productivity …

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 …

Canopy light interception determines the amount of energy captured by a crop, and is thus
critical to modeling crop growth and yield, and may substantially contribute to the prediction …

Background and aims Leaf nitrogen distribution in the plant canopy is an important
determinant for canopy photosynthesis. Although the gradient of leaf nitrogen is formed …