Abstract
Crop yield is controlled by the interaction between the genetic potentialities of crop plants and the environment in which they grow. Variations in the genotype and in the environment, including weather and cultural practices, act through physiological processes to control growth. Thus the physiological processes of plants are the machinery through which both the genetic potentialities and the environment operate to produce the quantity and quality of growth or phenotype which we term yield. This is shown in Figure 1.
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Kramer, P.J. (1980). The Role of Physiology in Crop Improvement. In: Staples, R.C., Kuhr, R.J. (eds) Linking Research to Crop Production. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1021-1_4
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