Green revolution ‘stumbles’ in a dry environment: Dwarf wheat with Rht genes fails to produce higher grain yield than taller plants under drought

In dry conditions, tall and fast‐growing wheat plants with good tolerance to drought may offer higher grain yields than ‘Green revolution’ wheat.

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Published inPlant, cell and environment Vol. 43; no. 10; pp. 2355 - 2364
Main Authors Jatayev, Satyvaldy, Sukhikh, Igor, Vavilova, Valeriya, Smolenskaya, Svetlana E., Goncharov, Nikolay P., Kurishbayev, Akhylbek, Zotova, Lyudmila, Absattarova, Aiman, Serikbay, Dauren, Hu, Yin‐Gang, Borisjuk, Nikolai, Gupta, Narendra K., Jacobs, Bertus, Groot, Stephan, Koekemoer, Francois, Alharthi, Badr, Lethola, Katso, Cu, Dan T., Schramm, Carly, Anderson, Peter, Jenkins, Colin L. D., Soole, Kathleen L., Shavrukov, Yuri, Langridge, Peter
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.10.2020
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Subjects
Crop yield
Dehydration
Drought
Edible Grain - growth & development
Edible Grain - physiology
Genes, Plant - physiology
Green revolution
Plant Breeding
Quantitative Trait, Heritable
Triticum - genetics
Triticum - growth & development
Triticum - physiology
Wheat
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Summary:In dry conditions, tall and fast‐growing wheat plants with good tolerance to drought may offer higher grain yields than ‘Green revolution’ wheat.
Bibliography:Correction added on 10 August 2020, after first online publication: The header ‘9 | SOME SEMI‐DWARF MUTANT ALLELES OFFER A PROMISING ALTERNATIVE 2016 STRATEGY’ has been corrected in this version.
Funding information
Australian ACIAR Project, Grant/Award Number: CIM/2005/111; China 111 Project, Grant/Award Number: B12007; Kazakh Ministry of Education and Science, Grant/Award Number: BR05236500; National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 31671695; Russian Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: 16‐16‐10021
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ISSN:0140-7791
1365-3040
DOI:10.1111/pce.13819