The importance of grain or kernel number in wheat: A reply to Sinclair and Jamieson

This paper is a response to Sinclair and Jamieson [Sinclair, T.R., Jamieson, P.D., 2006. Grain number, wheat yield, and bottling beer: an analysis. Field Crops Res. 98, 60–67] who propose that bulk carbon and nitrogen accumulation are fundamental to grain yield determination in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), while challenging the common approach to yield through the separate processes of grain number determination, followed by grain filling, as...