Quantifying the potential yield benefit of root traits in a target population of environments
Keywords:
root, drought, water deficit, wheat, APSIM model, genotype-environment interaction
Abstract
Despite their importance, roots characteristics and their influence on crop growth remain poorly understood. A modelling approach was used to evaluate the potential impact of different root traits in targeted environments. Increased root extractable water at depth gave some substantial advantage to crops in all regions of the Australian wheatbelt, while increased root growth rate was only advantageous in the West of the belt.
Published
2013-06-04
Issue
Section
4B Growth and development of plant communities
Authors who publish with this proceedings volume agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the Conference organisers right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this proceedings volume.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the proceeding's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this proceedings volume.
