Pete Berry

TL;DR: A better understanding of wheat's physiological and genetic basis may permit floret abortion to be minimized for a more optimal source: sink balance, and trade-offs in terms of the partitioning of assimilates to competing sinks during spike growth, to prevent yield losses as a result of lodging.

TL;DR: Six complementary approaches are proposed, namely: optimizing developmental pattern to maximize spike fertility and grain number, optimizing spike growth to maximize grain number and dry matter harvest index, improving spike fertility through desensitizing floret abortion to environmental cues, and improving potential grain size and grain filling.

TL;DR: The prospects for continuing to reduce lodging risk through the selection of shorter genotypes may be limited and there does appear to be significant scope for increasing lodging resistance by strengthening the stem and the anchorage system by exploiting the wide genetic variation in these plant characters and through crop management decisions.

TL;DR: Berry, P. M., Sylvester-Bradley, R., Philipps, L., Hatch, D. J., Cuttle, S. P., Rayns, F. W., Gosling, P., and Gosling et al. as discussed by the authors proposed that the productivity of organic farms is restricted by the supply of available nitrogen.

TL;DR: Land plants have adapted to survive under a range of wind climates and this involve changes in chemical composition, physical structure and morphology at all scales from the cell to the whole plant.