Analysis of sink/source relations in bread wheat recombinant inbred lines and commercial cultivars under a high yield potential environment

Grain yield in wheat is generally considered to be sink-limited during grain filling. But is this limitation inherent to the crop species or a consequence of the breeding process? A way to ascertain this is by using genetic materials not subject to selection. Grain yield could be analyzed as the product between: (i) grain number per unit area, (ii) the potential grain weight (i.e. weight per grain obtained without source limitation); and (iii)...