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Title: Plant breeding and whole-system crop physiology : improving crop maturity, adaptation and yield / D.H. Wallace and Weikai Yan.
Author: Wallace, D. H. ; Yan, Weikai.
Year: c1998.
Description: xxv, 390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject: Plant genetic resources. ; Plant breeding. ; Adaptation. ; Plant development. ; Harvest index. ; Crop production. ; Models. ; Lighting. ; Temperature. ; Biomass. ; Photoperiod. ; Maturity. ; Cultivars. ; Selective breeding. ; Crop yield. ; Growth.
Notes: Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 343-362.
ISBN/ISSN: 085199265X (alk. paper);
Type: Book
Abstract: 1. Shifts from current paradigms suggested by near-whole and whole-system research -- 2. The beginning of systems thinking about breeding for yield -- 3. Biomass accumulation: the first major physiological-genetic component of yield -- 4. Partitioning of photosynthate: the second major physiological-genetic component of yield -- 5. Days to maturity: the third major physiological-genetic component of yield -- 6. A model of photoperiod x temperature interaction effects on plant development -- 7. Prediction
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