Crop resilience via inter-plant spacing brings to the fore the productive ideotype

Natural selection favors the competitive ideotype, enabling native plants to survive in the face of intense competition. The productive ideotype is the goal of artificial selection to achieve high crop yields via the efficient use of resources in a self-competition regime. When breeding is establish...

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Main Author: Ioannis Tokatlidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.934359/full