Claim · model-written summary
Grain-filling heat reduced primary-spike seed number by 9.3%.
- Taxon
- spring wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Organ / stage
- primary spikese0
- Treatment
- Heat stress during grain fillinge0
- Outcome
- seed numbere0
- Value
- 9.3%e0
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Verbatim
e0“Heat stress during grain filling had a more pronounced impact on seed weight (16 and 22%) than seed number (2.7 and 9.3%) in main and primary spikes, respectively.”
t0“spring wheat”
Title
Raju Bheemanahalli; V. S. John Sunoj; Gautam Saripalli; et al. Crop Science 2019. doi:10.2135/cropsci2018.05.0292
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- Intervention effect Heat stress reduced pollen germination by 39.9% across wheat genotypes.
- Intervention effect Flowering heat reduced main-spike seed number by 15.4%.
- Intervention effect Flowering heat reduced primary-spike seed number by 23.0%.
- Intervention effect Flowering heat reduced main-spike seed weight by 32.3%.
- Intervention effect Flowering heat reduced primary-spike seed weight by 34.6%.
- Intervention effect Grain-filling heat reduced main-spike seed weight by 16%.
- Intervention effect Grain-filling heat reduced primary-spike seed weight by 22%.
- Intervention effect Grain-filling heat reduced main-spike seed number by 2.7%.
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