Earliness per se effects on developmental traits in hexaploid wheat grown under field conditions

Earliness per se (Eps) genes are critical for fine-tuning flowering time and likely to modify other developmental traits as well. Effects of Eps alleles on components comprising flowering time of hexaploid wheat have not been studied. In this work, we evaluated under field conditions the effects of Eps alleles on flowering time and on a number of developmental traits using four groups of near isogenic lines (NILs) with contrasting Eps alleles...