Linking fundamental science to crop improvement through understanding source and sink traits and their integration for yield enhancement

Engineering a New Chloroplastic Photorespiratory Bypass to Increase Photosynthetic Efficiency and Productivity in Rice

(2019) Bo-Ran Shen et al.   Molecular Plant

Synthetic glycolate metabolism pathways stimulate crop growth and productivity in the field

(2019) Paul F. South et al.   SCIENCE

Optogenetic manipulation of stomatal kinetics improves carbon assimilation, water use, and growth

(2019) M. Papanatsiou et al.   SCIENCE

Ubiquitin Specific Protease 15 Has an Important Role in Regulating Grain Width and Size in Rice

(2019) Cuilan Shi et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Field-grown transgenic wheat expressing the sunflower gene HaHB4 significantly outyields the wild type

(2019) Fernanda Gabriela González et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

TaBT1, affecting starch synthesis and thousand kernel weight, underwent strong selection during wheat improvement

(2019) Yamei Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Feeding the world: improving photosynthetic efficiency for sustainable crop production

(2019) Andrew J Simkin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Field crop phenomics: enabling breeding for radiation use efficiency and biomass in cereal crops

(2019) Robert T. Furbank et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Identification and characterization of a novel stay‐green QTL that increases yield in maize

(2019) Jun Zhang et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Raising genetic yield potential in high productive countries: Designing wheat ideotypes under climate change

(2019) Nimai Senapati et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Root System Depth in Arabidopsis Is Shaped by EXOCYST70A3 via the Dynamic Modulation of Auxin Transport

(2019) Takehiko Ogura et al.   CELL

Development of Drought-Tolerant Transgenic Wheat: Achievements and Limitations

(2019) Shahbaz Khan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Overexpression of ca1pase decreases Rubisco abundance and grain yield in wheat

(2019) Ana Karla M Lobo et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Rice plants overexpressing OsEPF1 show reduced stomatal density and increased root cortical aerenchyma formation

(2019) U. Mohammed et al.   Scientific Reports

Selection for erect canopy architecture can increase yield and biomass of spring wheat

(2019) Richard A. Richards et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Next-generation strategies for understanding and influencing source–sink relations in crop plants

(2018) Uwe Sonnewald et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Genetic dissection of rice (Oryza sativa L.) tiller, plant height, and grain yield based on QTL mapping and metaanalysis

(2018) L. Lei et al.   EUPHYTICA

Expression of a rice soluble starch synthase gene in transgenic wheat improves the grain yield under heat stress conditions

(2018) Bin Tian et al.   IN VITRO CELLULAR & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY-PLANT

Trehalose 6-Phosphate Regulates Photosynthesis and Assimilate Partitioning in Reproductive Tissue

(2018) Maria Oszvald et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Where are the drought tolerant crops? An assessment of more than two decades of plant biotechnology effort in crop improvement

(2018) Michael L. Nuccio et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Genome-wide linkage mapping of yield-related traits in three Chinese bread wheat populations using high-density SNP markers

(2018) Faji Li et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Photosystem II Subunit S overexpression increases the efficiency of water use in a field-grown crop

(2018) Katarzyna Głowacka et al.   Nature Communications

Novel Grain Weight Loci Revealed in a Cross between Cultivated and Wild Sorghum

(2018) Yongfu Tao et al.   Plant Genome

Root architectural traits and yield: exploring the relationship in barley breeding trials

(2018) Hannah Robinson et al.   EUPHYTICA

Rice with reduced stomatal density conserves water and has improved drought tolerance under future climate conditions

(2018) Robert S. Caine et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Transcriptome and metabolome reveal distinct carbon allocation patterns during internode sugar accumulation in different sorghum genotypes

(2018) Yin Li et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

miR1432-OsACOT (Acyl-CoA thioesterase) module determines grain yield via enhancing grain filling rate in rice

(2018) Ya-Fan Zhao et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Trehalose 6-phosphate positively regulates fatty acid biosynthesis by stabilizing WRINKLED1

(2018) Zhiyang Zhai et al.   PLANT CELL

Overexpression of an auxin receptor OsAFB6 significantly enhanced grain yield by increasing cytokinin and decreasing auxin concentrations in rice panicle

(2018) Qin He et al.   Scientific Reports

A reductionist approach to dissecting grain weight and yield in wheat

(2018) Jemima Brinton et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Genetic modification of spikelet arrangement in wheat increases grain number without significantly affecting grain weight

(2018) Gizaw M. Wolde et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

OsTPS8 controls yield-related traits and confers salt stress tolerance in rice by enhancing suberin deposition

(2018) Bhushan Vishal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Association mapping reveals loci associated with multiple traits that affect grain yield and adaptation in soft winter wheat

(2017) Dennis N. Lozada et al.   EUPHYTICA

Novel Rht-1 dwarfing genes: tools for wheat breeding and dissecting the function of DELLA proteins

(2017) Stephen G. Thomas   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Increasing crop yield and resilience with trehalose 6-phosphate: targeting a feast–famine mechanism in cereals for better source–sink optimization

(2017) Matthew J Paul et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Cloning of TaTPP-6AL1 associated with grain weight in bread wheat and development of functional marker

(2017) Pengfei Zhang et al.   MOLECULAR BREEDING

WIDE AND THICK GRAIN 1 , which encodes an otubain-like protease with deubiquitination activity, influences grain size and shape in rice

(2017) Ke Huang et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Genetic analysis of multi-environmental spring wheat trials identifies genomic regions for locus-specific trade-offs for grain weight and grain number

(2017) Sivakumar Sukumaran et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Genetic association of stomatal traits and yield in wheat grown in low rainfall environments

(2016) Fahimeh Shahinnia et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Genotypic variation in spike fertility traits and ovary size as determinants of floret and grain survival rate in wheat

(2016) Zifeng Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

QTL editing confers opposing yield performance in different rice varieties

(2016) Lan Shen et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Chemical intervention in plant sugar signalling increases yield and resilience

(2016) Cara A. Griffiths et al.   NATURE

A Tale of Two Sugars: Trehalose 6-Phosphate and Sucrose

(2016) Carlos M. Figueroa et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Improving photosynthesis and crop productivity by accelerating recovery from photoprotection

(2016) Johannes Kromdijk et al.   SCIENCE

Meeting the Global Food Demand of the Future by Engineering Crop Photosynthesis and Yield Potential

(2015) Stephen P. Long et al.   CELL

Discovery of QTL for stay-green and heat-stress in barley (Hordeum vulgare) grown under simulated abiotic stress conditions

(2015) Peter W. Gous et al.   EUPHYTICA

Volume, water content, epidermal cell area, and XTH5 expression in growing grains of wheat across ploidy levels

(2015) Manuel Muñoz et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

Sorghum genotypes differ in high temperature responses for seed set

(2015) Vijaya Singh et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

The Genetic Basis of Composite Spike Form in Barley and 'Miracle-Wheat'

(2015) N. Poursarebani et al.   GENETICS

TaCYP78A5regulates seed size in wheat (Triticum aestivum)

(2015) Meng Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Expression of trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase in maize ears improves yield in well-watered and drought conditions

(2015) Michael L Nuccio et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Genetic control of mesophyll conductance in common wheat

(2015) Margaret M. Barbour et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genome-Wide Linkage Mapping of QTL for Yield Components, Plant Height and Yield-Related Physiological Traits in the Chinese Wheat Cross Zhou 8425B/Chinese Spring

(2015) Fengmei Gao et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

A trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase enhances anaerobic germination tolerance in rice

(2015) Tobias Kretzschmar et al.   Nature Plants

Ppd-1 is a key regulator of inflorescence architecture and paired spikelet development in wheat

(2015) Scott A. Boden et al.   Nature Plants

Wheat Grain Filling Is Limited by Grain Filling Capacity rather than the Duration of Flag Leaf Photosynthesis: A Case Study Using NAM RNAi Plants

(2015) Philippa Borrill et al.   PLoS One

Genome-Wide Association Mapping of Yield and Grain Quality Traits in Winter Wheat Genotypes

(2015) W. Tadesse et al.   PLoS One

Drought adaptation of stay-green sorghum is associated with canopy development, leaf anatomy, root growth, and water uptake

(2014) Andrew K. Borrell et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

The Ubiquitin Receptor DA1 Regulates Seed and Organ Size by Modulating the Stability of the Ubiquitin-Specific Protease UBP15/SOD2 in Arabidopsis

(2014) L. Du et al.   PLANT CELL

Global Selection on Sucrose Synthase Haplotypes during a Century of Wheat Breeding

(2014) J. Hou et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

FRIZZY PANICLEDrives Supernumerary Spikelets in Bread Wheat

(2014) Oxana Dobrovolskaya et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Understanding grain yield responses to source–sink ratios during grain filling in wheat and barley under contrasting environments

(2013) Román A. Serrago et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH

QTL for root angle and number in a population developed from bread wheats (Triticum aestivum) with contrasting adaptation to water-limited environments

(2013) Jack Christopher et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Physiological basis of genetic variation in leaf photosynthesis among rice (Oryza sativa L.) introgression lines under drought and well-watered conditions

(2012) Junfei Gu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Control of grain size, shape and quality by OsSPL16 in rice

(2012) Shaokui Wang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Achieving yield gains in wheat

(2012) MATTHEW REYNOLDS et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Multi-environment analysis and improved mapping of a yield-related QTL on chromosome 3B of wheat

(2012) Julien Bonneau et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Over-expressing the C3 photosynthesis cycle enzyme Sedoheptulose-1-7 Bisphosphatase improves photosynthetic carbon gain and yield under fully open air CO2 fumigation (FACE)

(2011) David M Rosenthal et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

The sucrose-regulated Arabidopsis transcription factor bZIP11 reprograms metabolism and regulates trehalose metabolism

(2011) Jingkun Ma et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cytokinin-mediated source/sink modifications improve drought tolerance and increase grain yield in rice under water-stress

(2011) Zvi Peleg et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Abiotic stress and control of grain number in cereals

(2011) Rudy Dolferus et al.   PLANT SCIENCE

Improving Photosynthetic Efficiency for Greater Yield

(2010) Xin-Guang Zhu et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Sucrose-mediated translational control

(2009) Maureen Hummel et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Inhibition of SNF1-Related Protein Kinase1 Activity and Regulation of Metabolic Pathways by Trehalose-6-Phosphate

(2009) Y. Zhang et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Bacterial RNA Chaperones Confer Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants and Improved Grain Yield in Maize under Water-Limited Conditions

(2008) P. Castiglioni et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Drought tolerance improvement in crop plants: An integrated view from breeding to genomics

(2007) Luigi Cattivelli et al.   FIELD CROPS RESEARCH