Reproductive Development in Lolium temulentum L.: Spike Morphogenesis and Grain Set Limitations

Reproductive development in cereals is not easy to investigate because their quantitative response to environmental factors makes it difficult to synchronize the plants. In this paper, one of our aims was to assess whether Lolium temulentum strain Ceres, a qualitative long-day grass, could serve as a model of reproductive development for cereals. The morphological patterns from floral transition to seed set were studied.