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dc.contributor.authorWhite, E.M.*
dc.contributor.authorWilson, F.E.A.*
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-16T14:09:15Z
dc.date.available2014-07-16T14:09:15Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationE.M. White and F.E.A. Wilson. Responses of grain yield, biomass and harvest index and their rates of genetic progress to nitrogen availability in ten winter wheat varieties. Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research 45: 85–101, 2006en_GB
dc.identifier.issn0791-6833
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11019/610
dc.descriptionpeer-revieweden_GB
dc.description.abstractIncreased yields in winter wheat cultivars have been found to be largely attributable to improved partitioning of biomass to the grain, i.e., higher harvest index. However, there is a biological upper limit to harvest index and therefore breeders need to exploit increased biomass production as the mechanism by which yields are increased. Evidence for improved biomass was sought in experiments conducted over three years (1994 to 1996), at the Plant Testing Station, Crossnacreevy, near Belfast, with 10 varieties of winter wheat introduced over the period 1977 to 1991. Variation in grain yield was more strongly associated with variation in biomass (an increase of 0.78 t/ha in grain yield at 85% dry matter (DM) per 1t/ha increase in biomass at 100% DM; R2 = 0.71) than in harvest index (an increase of 0.1t/ha at 85% DM per percentage point increase in harvest index; R2 = 0.36). When age (= year of first harvest in UK National List trials) of the varieties was taken into account, yield (0.037 t ha−y−; R2 = 0.42) and biomass (0.034 t ha−y−; R2 = 0.31), but not harvest index (0.34%/year; R2 = 0.001), increased as year increased. Genetic gain in yield was smaller without fertiliser N (0.021 t ha−y−; R2 = 0.21) and at 40 kg ha N (0.025 t ha−y−; R2 =0.25) than at 215–250 kg/ha N (0.065 t ha−y−; R2 = 0.39). Theoretically, if the maximum biomass (18.60 t/ha for Rialto), could have been combined with the maximum harvest index (55.3%) in Riband, yield would potentially have been increased by 2.5 t/ha compared with yields for either variety.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipAdvice and guidance from Dr. Sally Watson, Biometrics Branch, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute is appreciated.en_GB
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherTeagasc, Oak Park, Carlow, Irelanden_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIrish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research;vol 45
dc.subjectBiomassen_GB
dc.subjectHarvest indexen_GB
dc.subjectVarietiesen_GB
dc.subjectWheaten_GB
dc.subjectYield improvementen_GB
dc.titleResponses of grain yield, biomass and harvest index and their rates of genetic progress to nitrogen availability in ten winter wheat varieties.en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
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