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Source–Sink Relationships in Cereals and Legumes

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Critical period:

Correspond to the time lapse during the crop cycle in which grain number per square meter is highly sensitive to environmental conditions.

Crop development:

The sequence of processes and events involved in producing new organs throughout the crop cycle of a crop.

Grain filling period:

Time lapse of grain growth from flowering to physiological maturity.

Source–sink relationship:

Refers to the balance between the assimilate production in photosynthesis and the assimilate utilization for grain yield of crops.

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Cereals and grain legume crops are widely sown along the world and their importance as a source of feed and food is indisputable mainly as a source of carbohydrates and proteins, respectively. Grain yield of these crops can be defined as the product of grain number per unit area and the average grain weight. Source-sink manipulations, in cereals, have shown the critical period for grain number determination occurs mainly at the...

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  1. Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA-Remehue, Osorno, Chile

    Patricio Sandaña

  2. Institute of Plant Production and Protection, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

    Daniel F. Calderini

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  1. Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Agrotecnio Center, Lleida, Spain

    Roxana Savin

  2. Department of Crop and Forest Sciences; Catalonian Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, University of Lleida, Agrotecnio Center; ICREA, Lleida; Barcelona, Spain

    Gustavo A. Slafer

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Sandaña, P., Calderini, D.F. (2019). Source–Sink Relationships in Cereals and Legumes. In: Savin, R., Slafer, G. (eds) Crop Science. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8621-7_1037

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