1991
DOI: 10.1017/s0014479700019165
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Towards the Reliable Prediction of Time to Flowering in Six Annual Crops. I. The Development of Simple Models for Fluctuating Field Environments

Abstract: Despite numerous altempts, the development of generalized models capable of accurate predictions of the times from sowing to flowering (f) of crop plants in field environments has remained elusive. Models which seek to corrclatcy\vith various states of environmental factors such as photoperiod, P, and temperature, T, using formal statistical procedures arc often complex. Here, we describe a family of photothermal responses (involving unambiguous parameters and limits) which quantify the linear, non-interacting… Show more

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“…Plant species are commonly classified into categories of long day, short day and day neutral plants. Daylength responses, however, also vary within species.Summerfield and his colleagues have carried out detailed studies on regulation of flowering in several crop species and conclude that the time when a crop flowers is determined almost exclusively by the genetically controlled responses to daylength and temperature (Summerfield et al 1991, Roberts et al 1993). On the basis of experiments under controlled conditions in which temperature and photoperiod could be independently manipulated, they have developed quantitative models that are reliable enough to predict when particular genotypes will flower in any environment.…”
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“…Plant species are commonly classified into categories of long day, short day and day neutral plants. Daylength responses, however, also vary within species.Summerfield and his colleagues have carried out detailed studies on regulation of flowering in several crop species and conclude that the time when a crop flowers is determined almost exclusively by the genetically controlled responses to daylength and temperature (Summerfield et al 1991, Roberts et al 1993). On the basis of experiments under controlled conditions in which temperature and photoperiod could be independently manipulated, they have developed quantitative models that are reliable enough to predict when particular genotypes will flower in any environment.…”
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“…Previous relationships between plant flowering and day length, that utilize long and short day plant classifications (Major, 1980) or photothermal time (Summerfield et al 1991), were unable to capture the variation in time of flowering as well as the straight thermal time model. The relationship was strongest for each cultivar when the model assumed the amount of time required from emergence to flowering was based on the duration and direction of photoperiod at emergence.…”
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“…The effects of photoperiod on the time of flowering have been quantified using photothermal time as defined by Weir et al (1984). This method has been used to predict flowering time in many crops (Summerfield et al, 1991) including wheat (Porter et al, 1987) and subterranean clover (Evans et al, 1992). In most cases analyses have been based on the mean photoperiod experienced by the plant from emergence to flowering.…”
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“…Previous controlled-environment experiments and crop modeling studies show that crop duration shortens with increase in mean temperature if adaptation options such as changes of sowing dates and cultivars are not taken into account (Summerfield et al, 1991). A shorter crop growth duration reduces the amount of radiation that is intercepted by the leaf canopy, and hence the biomass and grain yields decline.…”
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