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Over recent”years, the yields of winter wheat in the United Kingdom have been consistently increasing and in 1983 the national average yield was estimated as 6.2 t ha”-1 (HGCA, 1984). At the same time, specialist wheat producers in England record average farm yields of about 9 t ha-1 with individual crops yielding more than 10 t ha-1 of grain at 16% moisture content. The acnievement of these heavy yields tends to be erratic, despite apparently small differences in weather between seasons and similar management regimes. The challenge for the crop physiologist is to understand how the processes governing yield are influenced by the weather and husbandry, so that advice given to farmers can be effective in their quest for consistent quantity and quality of yield.
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Biscoe, P.V., Willington, V.B.A. (1985). Crop Physiological Studies in Relation to Mathematical Models. In: Day, W., Atkin, R.K. (eds) Wheat Growth and Modelling. NATO ASI Science, vol 86. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3665-3_24
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