Scientists reveal how wheat's unique hydraulic system can cleverly reroute water supply to safeguard its reproduction during severe water shortages.
Tag - wheat
Fi Gennu
Unlocking the secret to breeding high yielding protein-rich wheat
Models enable the optimization of multiple trait trade-offs.
Rachel Shekar
Modelling phenomics data for temperature response
Using computational models to overcome the shortcomings of high throughput phenotyping field data.
Wheat adaptation to climate change
Models fill in the data gaps to identify genotypes to maximize yield across the NE Australian wheat-belt under climate change.
When the wind blows, what happens to wheat?
A reduction in height but an increase in tillers suggests that wheat may benefit from a little mechanical stress.
Cereal thriller brings home the bacon*
Amber Waves: The extraordinary biography of wheat, from wild grass to world megacrop by Catherine Zabinski 2020. The University of Chicago Press. Biographies are usually written about people. However, Catherine...
Nigel Chaffey
Optimising photosynthetic resource distributions to improve wheat yield
How does the optimality of photosynthetic resource distribution relative to light availability vary across a wheat population?
William Salter
Feeding (or not feeding) a fungus: plants may not be so good to their fungal partners after all
Interactions between plants and fungal symbionts are not always balanced affairs.
Liam Elliott
Impact of sodic soils on wheat coleoptile length and root angle
How do plants emerge from the ground in tough sodium-rich soils?
How arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi talk to plants before colonisation
Plant roots do not sit alone in the soil. In the earth you will also find various microbes. Lurking in the dirt is Rhizophagus irregularis, an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus that colonises wheat. In a new study Hui Tian...
Alun Salt
WALTer: A 3D wheat model that simulates tillering dynamics
Branching is a main morphogenetic process involved in the adaptation of plants to the environment. In grasses, tillering is divided into three phases: tiller emergence, cessation of tillering and tiller regression...
Alex Assiry
Potential involvement of root auxins in drought tolerance by modulating nocturnal and daytime water use in wheat
The ability of wheat genotypes to save water by reducing their transpiration rate (TR) at times of the day with high vapour pressure deficit (VPD) has been linked to increasing yields in terminal drought environments...
FSPM-based investigation of plant interactions in complex wheat canopies
Functional–structural plant models (FSPMs) explicitly describe individual plant architecture, making this approach suitable for unravelling plant–plant interactions in complex canopies. Barillot et al. developed a...
Bread’s birth bested by 4400 years
Like many of you reading this item I suspect, I was taught that agriculture was ‘invented’ about 10,000 years ago in the so-called Fertile Crescent, an ancient territory that corresponds to much of the modern-day Middle...
