Claim · model-written summary
Floret primordia development in a wheat spike can be divided into four distinct stages.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Outcome
- development of all FP in a spikee0
- Qualifier
- four distinct stagese0
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Verbatim
e0“The development of all FP in a spike could be divided into four distinct stages: differentiation (Stage I), differentiation and morphology development concurrently (Stage II), morphology development (Stage III), and polarization (Stage IV)”
t0“in wheat”
Title
Xiaolei Guo; Zhen Zhang; Junyan Li; et al. Plant Cell & Environment 2024. doi:10.1111/pce.14832
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect The long photoperiod shortened spike growth compared with the short photoperiod.
- Intervention effect The long photoperiod stimulated early flowering by shortening Stage III.
- Intervention effect The long photoperiod reduced assimilate accumulation in the spike.
- Intervention effect The long photoperiod resulted in fertile floret loss.
- Intervention effect Long photoperiod supplemented with red light shortened the time required to complete Stages I-II.
- Intervention effect Long photoperiod supplemented with red light raised assimilate supply in the spike.
- Intervention effect Long photoperiod supplemented with red light promoted anther development before polarization initiation.
- Intervention effect Long photoperiod supplemented with red light increased fertile FP number during Stage III.
- Observation Fertile FP development was maintained during Stage IV until the floret primordia became fertile florets.
- Recommendation The authors propose a light regimen that gives a shorter spike growth phase and a higher fertile floret number in wheat.