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Raising wheat yield ceiling

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In silico cultivar selection estimates that the global potential wheat yield may be doubled. However, there remain many challenges in leveraging the yield potential into practice.

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Fig. 1: Yield progression of two major staple food crops between 1961 and 2020.

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  1. Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Tsukuba, Japan

    Toshihiro Hasegawa

  2. Texas A&M University, AgriLife Research, Beaumont, TX, USA

    Lloyd T. Wilson

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