Global agriculture is dominated by a handful of species that currently supply a huge
proportion of our food and feed. It additionally faces the massive challenge of providing food …

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 …

Key message In wheat, 2852 major QTLs of 8998 QTLs available for yield and related traits
were used for meta-analysis; 141 meta-QTLs were identified, which included 13 breeder's …

Increasing the speed of breeding to enhance crop productivity and adaptation to abiotic
stresses is urgently needed. The perception that a second Green Revolution should be …

As crop yields are pushed closer to biophysical limits, achieving yield gains becomes
increasingly challenging and will require more insight into deterministic pathways to yields …

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 …

Increasing grain yield has always been the primary goal of crop breeding. KLUH/CYP78A5
has been shown to affect seed size in several plant species, but the relevant molecular …

France suffered, in 2016, the most extreme wheat yield decline in recent history, with some
districts losing 55% yield. To attribute causes, we combined the largest coherent detailed …

Tradeoffs among plant traits help maintain relative fitness under unpredictable conditions
and maximize reproductive success. However, modifying tradeoffs is a breeding challenge …

Awnless and awned wheat is found across the globe. Archeological and historical records
show that the wheat spike was predominantly awned across the many millennia following …