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Because a controlled long-day chamber imposes a uniform, low-stress environment, it minimises the environmental component of variance and lets genetic differences among crosses be observed with little environmental confounding. We characterised an F2 population of 851 single plants derived from a partial (\u201csmart\u201d) diallel with reciprocals among three bread wheat cultivars, namely Adana-99 (heat-tolerant), Alada and Lucilla (both heat-sensitive), all four crosses sharing Adana-99 as a common parent. Plants were grown under a protocol-conformant 22 h light\/2 h dark photoperiod (light 24.1 \u00b0C, dark 17.9 \u00b0C) and scored for twelve agro-morphological, phenological and physiological traits. All crosses showed wide phenotypic variation and abundant favourable transgressive segregation; the Adana-99 \u00d7 Lucilla crosses produced the highest frequencies of transgressive segregants for grain weight per spike, biomass and harvest index, and of early-flowering individuals. Reciprocal differences were significant for biomass, grains per spike and grain weight per spike, in each case favouring Adana-99 as the female parent, indicating a maternal (or cytoplasmic) contribution. After excluding harvest index, which is algebraically derived from grain yield, path analysis identified grain weight per spike and biomass as the direct determinants of single-plant grain yield. Canonical discriminant analysis and a multi-trait genotype\u2013ideotype distance index (MGIDI) were used to describe the multivariate divergence among crosses and to identify segregants combining favourable values across traits. 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