Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and
energy needs of a growing and increasingly affluent human population. Water plays an …

Cereals are grown in almost every region of the world and are exposed to a variety of
environmental stresses that severely affect their growth and grain yield. Of various abiotic …

More than 200 years have passed since Thomas Malthus, author of 'An essay on the
principle of population'published in 1798, and highlighted 200 years later in Evans (1998) …

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …

Wheat yield is frequently analysed in terms of yield components (spikes per m 2, grains per
spike, grain size), and correlations between components are commonly reported, but …

The last two decades are witnessing a decline in the growth trend of cereal yields in many
European countries. The present study analyses yield trends in France using various …

Drought is the main abiotic constraint on cereal yield. Analysing physiological determinants
of yield responses to water may help in breeding for higher yield and stability under drought …

The need to accelerate breeding for increased yield potential and better adaptation to
drought and other abiotic stresses is an issue of increasing urgency. As the population …

Cereal production that now sustains a world population of more than 6.5 billion has tripled
during the past 40 yr, concurrent with an increase from 12 to 104 Tg yr− 1 of synthetic N …

Recent advances in crop research have the potential to accelerate genetic gains in wheat,
especially if co-ordinated with a breeding perspective. For example, improving …