Wheat-based foods have been staple foods since about 10,000 years and constitute a major
source of energy, dietary fiber, and micronutrients for the world population. The role of wheat …

The use of plant genetic resources (PGR)—wild relatives, landraces, and isolated breeding
gene pools—has had substantial impacts on wheat breeding for resistance to biotic and …

Sorghum bicolor is a drought tolerant C4 grass used for the production of grain, forage,
sugar, and lignocellulosic biomass and a genetic model for C4 grasses due to its relatively …

The presence of sufficient genetic variability, the knowledge of nature of association among
different characters and relative contribution of different characters to yield is a prerequisite …

Background Plant breeding requires numerous generations to be cycled and evaluated
before an improved cultivar is released. This lengthy process is required to introduce and …

Agriculture requires a synergetic improvement in production profitability, long-term viability,
and environmental health in the presence of abiotic (ie, uncontrollable weather, input costs …

Epidemiologic studies suggest an increasing prevalence of celiac disease and non-celiac
gluten/wheat sensitivity. With wheat proteins being the main triggers, changes in wheat …

Breeding wheat with enhanced levels of grain zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) is a cost-effective,
sustainable solution to malnutrition problems. Modern wheat varieties have limited variation …

Background Marker-assisted breeding will move forward from introgressing single/multiple
genes governing a single trait to multiple genes governing multiple traits to combat …

Abstract The International Center for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) leads the
Global Wheat Program, whose main objective is to increase the productivity of wheat …