Key message A review of the available literature on genetics of yield and its component
traits, tolerance to abiotic stresses and biofortification should prove useful for future research …

Wheat is one of the most important staple crops in the world and good source of calories and
nutrition. Its flour and dough have unique physical properties and can be processed to make …

Aegilops species have significantly contributed to wheat breeding despite the difficulties
involved in the handling of wild species, such as crossability and incompatibility. A number …

Aegilops tauschii, the D-genome donor of bread wheat, Triticum aestivum, is a storehouse of
genetic diversity, and an important resource for future wheat improvement. Genomic and …

Hexaploid triticale, including its primary and secondary forms, is an important forage crop
and a promising energy plant. Primary forms are usually developed by crossing Triticum …

Many of our current agricultural crops are natural or agricultural hybrids (between two or
more species), or polyploids (containing more than one genome or set of chromosomes) …

Main conclusion Wheat and its related genotypes show distinct distribution patterns for
mineral nutrients in maternal and filial tissues in grains. X-ray-based imaging techniques are …

Among the cereal crops, wheat is an important food crop and acts as the staple food for
more than half of the world's population. The genetic bottleneck of domestication and …

Interspecific plant hybridisation is a pivotal evolutionary process sha** speciation
dynamics. In the context of bread wheat cultivation in India, stripe rust stands out as the …

Due to the accumulation of various useful traits over evolutionary time, emmer wheat
(Triticum turgidum subsp. dicoccum and dicoccoides, 2 n= 4 x= 28; AABB), durum wheat (T …