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...
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Alex Assiry
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...
Nigel Chaffey
Integrated approach to maximize trait selection
There were many great articles concerning cross-disciplinary research at the interface between plant biology, mathematics and computer science before the launch in silico Plants (isP). We are excited for isP to be home...
Rachel Shekar
The responses of root morphology and phosphorus-mobilizing exudations in wheat to increasing shoot phosphorus concentration
Soil P deficiency is a major constraint to crop yield in many parts of the world and as such the adaptations of root growth and rhizosphere processes for soil phosphorus (P) acquisition have been investigated...
William Salter
Ozone lowers wheat yield by 9%
There were many great articles concerning cross-disciplinary research at the interface between plant biology, mathematics and computer science before the launch in silico Plants (isP). We are excited for isP to be home...
Splash dispersal and disease resistance in mixtures of cultivars with contrasting height
Cultivar mixtures have an important role to play in reducing the propagation of diseases, as is evident from the well-documented results of growing mixtures of cultivars from plants that exhibit different levels of...
botanyone
Maize nutrient uptake and photosynthesis in intercropping
Maize and wheat are globally important food crops. The two species can be grown as an intercrop, with substantial land sparing in the order of 20%, as expressed by a land equivalent ratio of approximately 1.2. In a...
AoBPLANTS
The race between wheat and Zymoseptoria tritici epidemics
Robert et al. explore how canopy growth, spatial organization, and leaf senescence impact epidemics of wheat Septoria tritici blotch (STB) caused by Zymoseptoria tritici. Strikingly, the timing of leaf senescence is one...
Modelling interaction dynamics between two foliar pathogens in wheat: a multi-scale approach
This study presents a new model combining two wheat fungal diseases, caused by Zymoseptoria tritici (septoria) and Puccinia triticina (brown rust), with a functional-structural plant (FSP) model of wheat. Most...
Coeliacs, snakebites and the perils of apricots…
Nigel Chaffey continues his exploration of the unexpected health benefits of some foods.
Deep rooting in a wheat doubled haploid population with wild emmer introgression
This is the first study to identify QTLs for rooting at depth in field-grown wheat at mature growth stages.
Seedling root architectural traits associated with yield in wheat
Roots, the ‘hidden half’ of plants, are notoriously difficult to phenotype. Xie et al. utilise a ‘pouch and wick’ high-throughput phenotyping pipeline to quantify the variation in seedling root system architecture of...
Resistance responses triggered by Fusarium crown rot in wheat
Fusarium diseases of cereals constitute economically significant constraints in cereal production systems. In this study, transcriptomic analysis using RNA-seq is combined with metabolite analysis to provide novel...
C4 Wheat? Lend an ear to hear more
One of the Grand Challenges – and, arguably, the Holy Grail – of plant research at present is an attempt to improve the photosynthetic efficiency of plants. Somewhat surprisingly, the fundamental photosynthetic pathway...
