The CGIAR Research Program on Wheat’s (WHEAT) synthetic wheat breeding strategy, which successfully transfers valuable diversity from wild goat grass to modern wheat, is providing farmers with climate-resilient, pest and disease-resistant wheat.
The breeding practice of using "synthetic hexaploid wheat" to incorporate genetic diversity from wild wheat relatives into modern varieties benefits the world's farmers through climate resilient and pest-resistant wheat. A 2019 study validated this practice, finding that 20% of the wheat lines in CIMMYT?s global spring bread wheat breeding program contain an average of 15% of the genome segments from the wild wheat relative Aegilops tauschii.
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| Format: | Case Study biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2019-12-31
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| Subjects: | research, farmers, climate, varieties, breeding, wheat, bread, bread wheat, aegilops, programmes, case studies, agrifood systems, rural development, |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121825 |
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| Summary: | The breeding practice of using "synthetic hexaploid wheat" to incorporate genetic diversity from wild wheat relatives into modern varieties benefits the world's farmers through climate resilient and pest-resistant wheat. A 2019 study validated this practice, finding that 20% of the wheat lines in CIMMYT?s global spring bread wheat breeding program contain an average of 15% of the genome segments from the wild wheat relative Aegilops tauschii. |
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