Breeding in bread-making wheat varieties for Mediterranean climate: the need to get resilient varieties.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Being one of the "big three" most cultivated cereals in the world, wheat plays a crucial role in ensuring global food/nutrition security, supplying close to 20% of the global needs for calories and proteins. However, the increasingly large fluctuations between years in temperatures and precipitation due to climate change cause important variations in wheat production worldwide. This fact makes wheat breeding programs a tool that, far from going out of fashion, is becoming the most important solution to develop varieties that can provide humanity with the sufficient amount of food it demands without forgetting the objective of quality.

Material and methods

The National Institute of Agricultural and Veterinary Research in Portugal has carried out a long-term exper

SUBMITTER: Macas B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11335553 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature