ReviewJournal of experimental botany2023
A 'wiring diagram' for source strength traits impacting wheat yield potential.
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- Plasticity of source-sink dynamics contributes to wheat yield stability.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Enhancing cereal productivity via nitrogen use efficiency: from conventional breeding to modern genomics.Frontiers in genetics · 2026Review
- Current Challenges in Cereal Breeding.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026Review
- Joint validation of yield and inter-annual consistency and elite lines selection in 52 advanced wheat lines based on a PCA-membership function-TOPSIS collaborative system.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- From Light Harvesting to Grain Filling: Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Pigment Composition, and Oxidative Status as Discrete Yield Determinants in Rye.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Genomic prediction models for morpho-phenological traits in durum wheat based on Vrn, Ppd, and Rht alleles.The plant genome · 2025Article
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- A 6-hour light-dark cycle reduces photosynthesis and leaf greenness in spring wheat at stem elongation through nitrate accumulation.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Article
- Grain yield trade-offs in spike-branching wheat can be mitigated by elite alleles affecting sink capacity and post-anthesis source activity.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
- The trade-off between grain weight and grain number in wheat is explained by the overlapping of the key phases determining these major yield components.Frontiers in plant science · 2024Article
- The Sink-Source Relationship in Cucumber (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A framework for improving wheat spike development and yield based on the master regulatory TOR and SnRK gene systems.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Article
- Improving crop yield potential: Underlying biological processes and future prospects.Food and energy security · 2023Review
- A 'wiring diagram' for sink strength traits impacting wheat yield potential.Journal of experimental botany · 2023Review
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Abstract
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 is but one component of crop regulation, so sink activities and the coordination of diverse processes throughout the crop must be considered in an integrated, systems approach. A set of 'wiring diagrams' has been devised as a visual tool to integrate the interactions of component processes at different stages of wheat development. They enable the roles of chloroplast, leaf, and whole-canopy processes to be seen in the context of sink development and crop growth as a whole. In this review, we dissect source traits both anatomically (foliar and non-foliar) and temporally (pre- and post-anthesis), and consider the evidence for their regulation at local and whole-plant/crop levels. We consider how the formation of a canopy creates challenges (self-occlusion) and opportunities (dynamic photosynthesis) for components of photosynthesis. Lastly, we discuss the regulation of source activity by feedback regulation. The review is written in the framework of the wiring diagrams which, as integrated descriptors of traits underpinning grain yield, are designed to provide a potential workspace for breeders and other crop scientists that, along with high-throughput and precision phenotyping data, genetics, and bioinformatics, will help build future dynamic models of trait and gene interactions to achieve yield gains in wheat and other field crops.
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