Claim · model-written summary
Mild heat induced new tillers after heat stress.
- Taxon
- Common Wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- milde0
- Outcome
- development of new tillerse0
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Verbatim
e0“both mild and extreme heat induced development of new tillers after the heat stress, providing an alternative sink for accumulated photosynthates and significantly contributing to the final yield.”
t0“Common Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)”
Title
Jiemeng Xu; Claudia Lowe; Sergio G. Hernandez-Leon; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2022. doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.886541
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect Anther morphology worsened as heat stress increased from mild to extreme.
- Intervention effect Mild heat significantly decreased pollen viability relative to control.
- Intervention effect Mild heat significantly decreased grains per primary spike relative to control.
- Observation Sunstar performed well under mild heat.
- Observation Two CIMMYT breeding lines performed well under mild heat.
- Association Pollen viability and grain number per spike were positively correlated under heat.
- Intervention effect Extreme heat induced new tillers after heat stress.
- Association New tillers significantly contributed to final yield.
- Intervention effect Heat initially inhibited flag leaf photosystem II maximum quantum efficiency.
- Observation Flag leaf Fv/Fm recovered fully within days after heat.
- Association Heat stress was associated with earlier or faster leaf senescence by SPAD model fitting.
- Recommendation The authors propose heat-tolerant genotypes for mechanism studies and breeding.