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Associations between endogenous spike cytokinins and grain-number traits in spring wheat genotypes (2023)
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Love, B., Molero, G., Rivera-Amado, C., Müller, M., Munné-Bosch, S., Reynolds, M. P., & Foulkes, M. J. (2024). Associations between endogenous spike cytokinins and grain-number traits in spring wheat genotypes. European Journal of Agronomy, 152, Article 127011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2023.127011

Genetic variation in grain number has been positively associated with levels of cytokinins in inflorescences in cereals, although studies quantifying endogenous levels in the field are currently lacking. The present study, using a spring wheat associ... Read More about Associations between endogenous spike cytokinins and grain-number traits in spring wheat genotypes.

The role of plant vasculature in tackling N2O emissions (2023)
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Safdar, L. B., Fisk, I. D., & Foulkes, M. J. (2023). The role of plant vasculature in tackling N2O emissions. Trends in Plant Science, 28(12), 1354-1356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2023.09.012

Rising demand for protein-rich foods can impact N2O emissions from croplands. Recent research has pointed to the role of modified plant vasculature in grain protein increase. Here we highlight how discovering the mechanistic role of plant vasculature... Read More about The role of plant vasculature in tackling N2O emissions.

Challenges facing sustainable protein production: Opportunities for cereals (2023)
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Safdar, L. B., Foulkes, M. J., Kleiner, F. H., Searle, I. R., Bhosale, R. A., Fisk, I. D., & Boden, S. A. (2023). Challenges facing sustainable protein production: Opportunities for cereals. Plant Communications, 4(6), Article 100716. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2023.100716

Rising demands for protein worldwide are likely to drive increases in livestock production, as meat provides ∼40% of dietary protein. This will come at a significant environmental cost, and a shift toward plant-based protein sources would therefore p... Read More about Challenges facing sustainable protein production: Opportunities for cereals.

Leaf photosynthesis traits and associations with biomass and drought tolerance in amphidiploid and ancestral wheat genotypes (2023)
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Mahmood, Y. A., DeSilva, J., King, I. P., King, J., & Foulkes, M. J. (2023). Leaf photosynthesis traits and associations with biomass and drought tolerance in amphidiploid and ancestral wheat genotypes. European Journal of Agronomy, 147, Article 126846. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2023.126846

Future progress in wheat grain yield will depend on increasing photosynthesis capacity and biomass. Wheat wild relatives represent sources of novel genetic variation for photosynthesis traits. Our objective was to quantify variation in leaf photosynt... Read More about Leaf photosynthesis traits and associations with biomass and drought tolerance in amphidiploid and ancestral wheat genotypes.

Improving crop yield potential: Underlying biological processes and future prospects (2022)
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Burgess, A. J., Masclaux‐Daubresse, C., Strittmatter, G., Weber, A. P. M., Taylor, S. H., Harbinson, J., …Baekelandt, A. (2023). Improving crop yield potential: Underlying biological processes and future prospects. Food and Energy Security, 12(1), Article e435. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.435

The growing world population and global increases in the standard of living both result in an increasing demand for food, feed and other plant‐derived products. In the coming years, plant‐based research will be among the major drivers ensuring food s... Read More about Improving crop yield potential: Underlying biological processes and future prospects.

Root architecture and leaf photosynthesis traits and associations with nitrogen-use efficiency in landrace-derived lines in wheat (2022)
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Kareem, S. H., Hawkesford, M. J., DeSilva, J., Weerasinghe, M., Wells, D. M., Pound, M. P., …Foulkes, M. J. (2022). Root architecture and leaf photosynthesis traits and associations with nitrogen-use efficiency in landrace-derived lines in wheat. European Journal of Agronomy, 140, Article 126603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2022.126603

Root system architecture (RSA) is important in optimizing the use of nitrogen. High-throughput phenotyping techniques may be used to study root system architecture traits under controlled environments. A root phenotyping platform, consisting of germi... Read More about Root architecture and leaf photosynthesis traits and associations with nitrogen-use efficiency in landrace-derived lines in wheat.

Prediction of Photosynthetic, Biophysical, and Biochemical Traits in Wheat Canopies to Reduce the Phenotyping Bottleneck (2022)
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Robles-Zazueta, C. A., Pinto, F., Molero, G., Foulkes, M. J., Reynolds, M. P., & Murchie, E. H. (2022). Prediction of Photosynthetic, Biophysical, and Biochemical Traits in Wheat Canopies to Reduce the Phenotyping Bottleneck. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, Article 828451. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.828451

To achieve food security, it is necessary to increase crop radiation use efficiency (RUE) and yield through the enhancement of canopy photosynthesis to increase the availability of assimilates for the grain, but its study in the field is constrained... Read More about Prediction of Photosynthetic, Biophysical, and Biochemical Traits in Wheat Canopies to Reduce the Phenotyping Bottleneck.

Identifying quantitative trait loci for lodging-associated traits in the wheat doubled-haploid population Avalon × Cadenza (2021)
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Piñera-Chavez, F. J., Berry, P. M., Foulkes, M. J., Sukumaran, S., & Reynolds, M. P. (2021). Identifying quantitative trait loci for lodging-associated traits in the wheat doubled-haploid population Avalon × Cadenza. Crop Science, 61(4), 2371-2386. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20485

Lodging affects grain quality and grain yield in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and is difficult to breed for because its sporadic incidence and laborious protocols to measure lodging traits. Thus, developing molecular markers for these traits can incr... Read More about Identifying quantitative trait loci for lodging-associated traits in the wheat doubled-haploid population Avalon × Cadenza.

Exploring genetic diversity for grain partitioning traits to enhance yield in a high biomass spring wheat panel (2020)
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Sierra-Gonzalez, A., Molero, G., Rivera-Amado, C., Babar, M. A., Reynolds, M. P., & Foulkes, M. J. (2021). Exploring genetic diversity for grain partitioning traits to enhance yield in a high biomass spring wheat panel. Field Crops Research, 260, Article 107979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107979

© 2020 Breeding to raise yield potential through enhancing photosynthesis will have limited impact unless harvest index (HI: proportion of above-ground biomass as grain yield) is maintained or ideally increased. Boosting grain dry matter (DM) partiti... Read More about Exploring genetic diversity for grain partitioning traits to enhance yield in a high biomass spring wheat panel.

Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance (2020)
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Rivera-Amado, C., Molero, G., Trujillo-Negrellos, E., Reynolds, M., & Foulkes, J. (2020). Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance. Agronomy, 10(10), Article 1527. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101527

© 2020 by the authors. Grain filling may be limited by the joint source and sink capacity in modern wheat cultivars, indicating a need to research the co-limitation of yield by both photosynthesis and the number and potential size of grains. The exte... Read More about Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance.

Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars (2020)
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Nehe, A. S., Misra, S., Murchie, E. H., Chinnathambi, K., Singh Tyagi, B., & Foulkes, M. J. (2020). Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars. Field Crops Research, 251, Article 107778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107778

© 2020 The Authors Nitrogen (N) fertilizer represents a significant cost for the grower and may also have environmental impacts through nitrate leaching and N2O (a greenhouse gas) emissions associated with denitrification. The objectives of this stud... Read More about Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars.

Optimizing dry-matter partitioning for increased spike growth, grain number and harvest index in spring wheat (2019)
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Rivera-Amado, C., Trujillo-Negrellos ⁠, E., Molero, G., Reynolds, M. P., Sylvester-Bradley, R., & Foulkes, M. J. (2019). Optimizing dry-matter partitioning for increased spike growth, grain number and harvest index in spring wheat. Field Crops Research, 240, 154-167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2019.04.016

Improving biomass is an important goal for future genetic gains in yield potential in wheat, but it will also be crucial to identify physiological traits to maximize harvest index (HI, proportion of aboveground biomass in grain). Increased grain part... Read More about Optimizing dry-matter partitioning for increased spike growth, grain number and harvest index in spring wheat.

Canopy and ear traits associated with avoidance of Fusarium head blight in wheat (2018)
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Jones, S., Farooqi, A., Foulkes, J., Sparkes, D. L., Linforth, R., & Ray, R. V. (2018). Canopy and ear traits associated with avoidance of Fusarium head blight in wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, Article 1021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01021

Doubled haploid and elite wheat genotypes were ground inoculated in three field experiments and head spray inoculated in two glasshouse experiments, using mixed Fusarium and Microdochium species, to identify crop canopy and ear traits associated with... Read More about Canopy and ear traits associated with avoidance of Fusarium head blight in wheat.

Wheat lines exhibiting variation in tolerance of Septoria tritici blotch differentiated by grain source limitation (2017)
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Collin, F., Bancal, P., Spink, J., Kock Appelgren, P., Smith, J., Paveley, N., …Foulkes, M. (2018). Wheat lines exhibiting variation in tolerance of Septoria tritici blotch differentiated by grain source limitation. Field Crops Research, 217, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2017.11.022

Septoria tritici blotch (STB) is the most damaging disease of wheat crops in Europe. Because of the partial nature of genotypic resistance or the increasing resistance against fungicides, the tolerance, i.e. maintaining yield in the presence of expre... Read More about Wheat lines exhibiting variation in tolerance of Septoria tritici blotch differentiated by grain source limitation.

Relationships between δ13C, δ18O and grain yield in bread wheat genotypes under favourable irrigated and rain-fed conditions (2016)
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Foulkes, M. J., DeSilva, J., Gaju, O., & Carvalho, P. (2016). Relationships between δ13C, δ18O and grain yield in bread wheat genotypes under favourable irrigated and rain-fed conditions. Field Crops Research, 196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2016.07.006

In previous investigations, carbon isotope composition (δ13C) has been used in C3 cereals to screen for genotypes with high transpiration efficiency and oxygen isotope composition (δ18O) has been shown to correlate with transpiration rate. We examine... Read More about Relationships between δ13C, δ18O and grain yield in bread wheat genotypes under favourable irrigated and rain-fed conditions.

Avoiding lodging in irrigated spring wheat. II. Genetic variation of stem and root structural properties (2016)
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Piñera-Chavez, F., Berry, P., Foulkes, M., Molero, G., & Reynolds, M. (2016). Avoiding lodging in irrigated spring wheat. II. Genetic variation of stem and root structural properties. Field Crops Research, 196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2016.06.007

Lodging-related traits were evaluated on the CIMMYT Core spring wheat Germplasm Panel (CIMCOG) in the Yaqui Valley of North-West Mexico during three seasons (2010–2013). Genetic variation was significant for all the lodging-related traits in the cros... Read More about Avoiding lodging in irrigated spring wheat. II. Genetic variation of stem and root structural properties.

Avoiding lodging in irrigated spring wheat. I. Stem and root structural requirements (2016)
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Piñera-Chavez, F., Berry, P., Foulkes, M., Jesson, M., & Reynolds, M. (2016). Avoiding lodging in irrigated spring wheat. I. Stem and root structural requirements. Field Crops Research, 196, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2016.06.009

A model of the lodging process has been successfully adapted for use on spring wheat grown in North-West Mexico (NWM). The lodging model was used to estimate the lodging-associated traits required to enable spring wheat grown in NWM with a typical yi... Read More about Avoiding lodging in irrigated spring wheat. I. Stem and root structural requirements.

Breeding for increased nitrogen-use efficiency: A review for wheat (T. aestivum L.) (2016)
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Cormier, F., Foulkes, J., Hirel, B., Gouache, D., Moënne-Loccoz, Y., & Le Gouis, J. (2016). Breeding for increased nitrogen-use efficiency: A review for wheat (T. aestivum L.). Plant Breeding, 135(3), 255-278. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.12371

© 2016 Blackwell Verlag GmbH. Nitrogen fertilizer is the most used nutrient source in modern agriculture and represents significant environmental and production costs. In the meantime, the demand for grain increases and production per area has to inc... Read More about Breeding for increased nitrogen-use efficiency: A review for wheat (T. aestivum L.).

Identification of novel quantitative trait loci for resistance to Fusarium seedling blight caused by Microdochium majus and M. nivale in wheat (2016)
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Ren, R., Foulkes, J., Mayes, S., Yang, X., & Ray, R. V. (2016). Identification of novel quantitative trait loci for resistance to Fusarium seedling blight caused by Microdochium majus and M. nivale in wheat. Field Crops Research, 191, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2016.03.011

Microdochium nivale and Microdochium majus are important causal agents of Fusarium seedling blight (FSB) and Fusarium head blight (FHB) in wheat and other cereals worldwide. A doubled-haploid population derived from a cross between the winter wheat R... Read More about Identification of novel quantitative trait loci for resistance to Fusarium seedling blight caused by Microdochium majus and M. nivale in wheat.

High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Structural Data Quantify the Impact of Photoinhibition on Long-Term Carbon Gain in Wheat Canopies in the Field (2015)
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Burgess, A. J., Retkute, R., Pound, M. P., Foulkes, J., Preston, S. P., Jensen, O. E., …Murchie, E. H. (2015). High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Structural Data Quantify the Impact of Photoinhibition on Long-Term Carbon Gain in Wheat Canopies in the Field. Plant Physiology, 169(2), 1192-1204. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.00722

Photoinhibition reduces photosynthetic productivity; however, it is difficult to quantify accurately in complex canopies partly because of a lack of high-resolution structural data on plant canopy architecture, which determines complex fluctuations o... Read More about High-Resolution Three-Dimensional Structural Data Quantify the Impact of Photoinhibition on Long-Term Carbon Gain in Wheat Canopies in the Field.