Overview
- First published record on diversity of panicle architecture
- First study on grain filling and yield determined by panicle architecture
- Comprehensive study for researchers, students in the field
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About this book
This book shows the importance of rice for human consumption. It focuses on the rice panicle, its morphology and characteristics.
High genetic diversity of rice has been economically profitable for mankind; the crop provides food calories to half of the human race on earth and because of its adaptability to diversified and unstable ecological conditions, the plant has an asynchronous flowering system in the panicle. The International Rice Research Institute has a collection of panicles with numerous branching phenotypes and lengths varying from 10 to 43 cm. Due to the heterogeneous architecture, grain filling depends on the position of the spikelet within a panicle. Spikelets on apical branches fertilize early and fill faster compared to their basal counterparts and therefore, individual grain weights of panicle vary widely. The discrepancy in grain filling between spikelets changes with panicle architecture but the relationship of variation in individual grain weight with panicle architecture has not been studied. Spikelet number has increased highly in the newly developed rice cultivars, but it has no benefit accrued on grain filling and yield.
This book is recommended for students, researchers and teachers working in this field of expertise.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Panicle Architecture of Rice and its Relationship with Grain Filling
Authors: Pravat K. Mohapatra, Binod Bihari Sahu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67897-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67895-1Published: 25 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67897-5Published: 24 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 321
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Agriculture, Plant Genetics and Genomics, Plant Physiology, Plant Breeding/Biotechnology, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Plant Anatomy/Development