Rosella Motzo

TL;DR: A 32-multi-model ensemble is tested and applied to simulate global wheat yield and quality in a changing climate to potential benefits of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration by 2050, likely to be negated by impacts from rising temperature and changes in rainfall, but with considerable disparities between regions.

TL;DR: The greater drought resistance of triticale can be attributed to the earliness of its heading date and to the greater capacity of its roots to extract water from the soil.

TL;DR: By accessing syriacum germplasm, Italian breeders achieved a substantial improvement in the earliness and productivity of durum wheat well before the introduction of Rht genes.

TL;DR: The simulation results showed that sowing wheat before December can result in higher yields in the absence of waterlogging, however, the high frequency of water logging on the clay soils, showed no average yield advantage of sowing before December.

TL;DR: The first substantive effect of breeding in Italy on phenology was achieved with introgression from syriacum germplasm, which increased earliness both by an increase in earliness per se and a reduction in photoperiod sensitivity.