Seed biology and the yield of grain crops/ Dennis B. Egli

1: Introduction -- 2: Seeds as a Food Source -- 3: Increasing Food Supplies: Historical Changes in Seed Yield -- 4: Crop Physiology and Yield Improvement -- 5: The Seed: An Integral Component of the Processes Determining Yield -- 6: Seed Growth and Development -- 7: Seed Structure, Composition and Size -- 8: The Three Phases of Seed Development -- 9: Summary -- 10: Seed Growth Rate and Seed Fill Duration: Variation and Regulation -- 11: Species and Cultivar Variation -- 12: Seed Growth Rate -- 13: Seed Fill Duration -- 14: Summary -- 15: Yield Components - Regulation by the Seed -- 16: Yield Components - Seeds Per Unit Area and Seed Size -- 17: Determination of Seed Number -- 18: Determination of Seed Size -- 19: Summary -- 20: The Seed, Crop Management and Yield -- 21: Seed Number per Unit Area and Yield -- 22: Seed Size and Yield -- 23: Source-sink Limitations of Yield -- 24: Harvest Index and Partitioning -- 25: Time and Yield -- 26: Summary