Rate and duration of individual grain growth determine final kernel weight and are influenced by environmental factors. The objectives of this research were to assess the effects of elevated CO2 and drought stress on the grain filling rate and duration, and the weight of individual kernels. Spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was grown in a free air CO2 enrichment (FACE) system on the demonstra...

In rice panicle development, new meristems are generated sequentially in an organized manner and acquire their identity in a time- and position-dependent manner. In the panicle of the panicle phytomer2-1 (pap2-1) mutant, the pattern of meristem initiation is disorganized and newly formed meristems show reduced competency to become spikelet meristems, resulting in the transformation of early ari...

JANMOHAMMADI MOHSEN, SABAGHNIA NASER, NOURAEIN MOJTABA. 2014. Path Analysis of Grain Yield and Yield Components and Some Agronomic Traits in Bread Wheat. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 62(5): 945–952. Development of new bread wheat cultivars needs effi cient tools to monitor trait association in a breeding program. This investigation was aimed to charact...

Wheat grain yield consists of three components: spikes per plant, grains per spike (i.e. head or ear), and grain weight; and the grains per spike can be dissected into two subcomponents: spikelets per spike and grains per spikelet. An increase in any of these components will directly contribute to grain yield. Wheat morphology biology tells that a wheat plant has no lateral meristem that forms ...

Genetic variability, correlation and path coefficients for fifteen agro-morphological traits were studied on 100 oat lines including two checks. Genotypic phenotypic of variation high leaf number per tiller weight panicle. Traits such as plant, tiller, panicle, stem width, individual plant yield, length internode thousand seed showed heritability accompanied by genetic advance indicating that t...

The results indicated that the seed yield per plant showed a significant positive correlation with most of traits like days to 50% flowering, height, filled grains panicle, number spikelet fertility, flag leaf width, numbers tillers plant, effective panicle length and 100 weight, representing importance these for development great yielding varieties in contrast trait sterility has been reported...

FLORICAULA (FLO) of Antirrhinum and LEAFY (LFY) of Arabidopsis encode plant-specific transcription factors, which are necessary and sufficient to specify floral meristem identity. We isolated WFL, a wheat FLO/LFY ortholog, and analyzed its expression pattern. RT-PCR analysis indicated that WFL is expressed predominantly in young spike. The WFL expression pattern during reproductive development ...

Pollination is one of the most decisive practices in cocoa cultivation; therefore, to determine self-compatibility and evaluate morphology flower, it was carried out experimental farm "La Represa", Quevedo, Ecuador. For this purpose, a completely randomized DCA design used, with forty treatments, considering treatments hybrids three repetitions. Tukey's multiple range test (P≤0.05) applied diff...