Explore: Wheat Breeding

World Wheat Book : A History of Wheat Breeding Bonjean, Alain P.; Angus, William J. (2001). The World Wheat Book : A History of Wheat Breeding. Vol. 1

cycle. It has been used in different crops such as maize, wheat, etc. Participatory plant breeding (PPB) is when farmers are involved in a crop improvement

(/ˈdjʊərəm/), also called pasta wheat or macaroni wheat (Triticum durum or Triticum turgidum subsp. durum), is a tetraploid species of wheat. It is the second most

Common wheat (Triticum aestivum), also known as bread wheat, is a cultivated wheat species. About 95% of wheat produced worldwide is common wheat; it is

bread wheat and emmer wheat, giving rise to European spelt. The spelt genome continues to influence the breeding of modern hexaploid bread wheat through

duplicate of these wheat varieties is stored at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway. Through CIMMYT's global breeding system and partner

the known wheat species today are polyploid. Whereas common bread wheat is hexaploid, Khorasan wheat is tetraploid. To do further breeding with this tetraploid

have been used in wheat breeding programmes worldwide to provide shorter plants with higher yields. Cecil Salmon, a biologist and wheat expert on General

from wheat research are in the range of US$2.2 billion to US$3.1 billion each year, from 1994 to 2014. For every $1 invested in wheat breeding, $73 to

overcome most of these problems, after decades of additional breeding and gene transfer with wheat and rye. Millions of acres/hectares of the crop are grown