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

• Published in: Plant, 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
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.10.2020; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• 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

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