Complex relationship between crop yields and crop growing period: The shortened growing period before flowering contributes to yield increase in common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)

Gen Sakurai; Naoki Ishitsuka; Norikazu Okabe

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0322463

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Complex relationship between crop yields and crop growing period: The shortened growing period before flowering contributes to yield increase in common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)

Gen Sakurai ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: sakurai.gen270@naro.go.jp

Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6667-3924

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Naoki Ishitsuka,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Norikazu Okabe

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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Complex relationship between crop yields and crop growing period: The shortened growing period before flowering contributes to yield increase in common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)

Gen Sakurai,
Naoki Ishitsuka,
Norikazu Okabe

Published: August 12, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322463

About the Authors

Gen Sakurai

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: sakurai.gen270@naro.go.jp

Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6667-3924

Naoki Ishitsuka

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Norikazu Okabe

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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