Breeding Wheat for Stress Resistance: Towards Future Food Security
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 658
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wheat breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses; grain quality; marker-assisted selection; shuttle breeding
Interests: field crops breeding; genetics; drought tolerance; heat tolerance; resistance to biotic stresses; nutritional quality; marker-assisted selection
Interests: plant breeding; genetics; marker assisted breeding; crop improvement; biofortification; wheat breeding; enhanced levels of grain iron and zinc for improved human nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wheat is the most important food crop and the cradle of human civilization. The development of the semi-dwarf, input-responsive and high-yielding wheat varieties by the international and national breeding program has enabled an increase in global wheat production from 200 million tons in 1961 to 775 million tons in 2021 without any significant changes to the area of production, which clearly shows the impact of wheat breeding. Crop breeding is a continuous process to increase genetic gain through a combination of new alleles for yield and resistance to biotic and abiotic constraints which are increasing at an alarming rate especially in the face of climate change. The frequency of drought and high temperatures and the development of new virulent and aggressive diseases and insects is increasing unabated year on year. In this Special Issue of Plants, both review and original research papers will be presented to highlight the progress made in the identification of resistance genes and the development of high-yielding and climate-smart wheat varieties with resistance to biotic (diseases and insects) and abiotic stresses (drought, heat, salinity, cold) and nutritional qualities using classical and molecular breeding approaches and strategies.
Dr. Wuletaw Tadesse
Dr. Marta da Silva Sabino Lopes
Dr. Velu Govindan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wheat breeding
- drought tolerance
- heat tolerance
- rusts
- septoria
- genomic selection
- nutritional quality
