Crop Development: Genetic Control, Environmental Modulation and Relevance for Genetic Improvement of Crop Yield

摘要: Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the particularities of development wheat and soybean to highlight importance identifying genetic environmental controls phenological pattern. knowledge is a prerequisite understand, predict, manipulate association between crop cycles, resources, constraints favor coincidence critical period with most favorable conditions. Although cycle match crops factors has been determined in production systems, further improvement feasible by manipulation periods. The may occur before (e.g., wheat) or after soybean) flowering, but it clear that both species, spite their large morphological physiological differences, growth during this defines yield environments. Improving drivers expression genes control flowering time should improve precision positioning period, when highest level resources expected stresses are less likely.