Abstract

The research activities for wheat quality improvement have been focused on the utilization of wheat germplasms in the last decade, including the old varieties and wild relatives as well as the obtainment and evaluation of new breeding lines. Several studies have been conducted on the environmental effects on quality, development of evaluation, and processing methods for end uses. These studies reveal the usefulness of ancient germplasms as genetic resources for cereal breeding and highlight that only a small part of the genetic variation present in wild relatives and traditional varieties has been utilized yet. The rapid evolution of new genotyping and phenotyping techniques and their decreasing costs should allow the exploitation of the hidden diversity for enhancing yield, quality, and adaptation for biotic and abiotic stresses in cereals.

Keywords

Cereals; Genetic resources; Wheat wild relatives; Molecular marker; Nutrition; Plant breeding; Prebreeding; Pseudocereals

Published in

Title: Developing Sustainable and Health Promoting Cereals and Pseudocereals : Conventional and Molecular Breeding
ISBN: 978-0-323-90566-4
Publisher: Academic Press

SLU Authors

• Johansson, Eva

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Rahmatov, Mahbubjon

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Ceresino, Elaine

  • Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Science
Genetics and Breeding


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90566-4.00010-2

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/128747