Translational Genomics for Wheat Quality Improvement

Dear Colleagues,

Wheat, the most widely grown crop in the world, plays a major role in acheieving food and nutritional security. In recent times, to meet requirements of domestic and export markets, end use quality has become one of the major targets of various wheat breeding programs around the world. However, the direct estimation of several quality traits (e.g., bread-making quality) through full-scale tests is expensive, time-consuming and requires a large amount of grain, which is usually not available in early breeding generation, resulting in screening of only a limited number of advanced “candidate” lines.

The application of modern breeding tools may help in accurately estimating the end use performance and other quality characteristics and potential of individual wheat lines in early generations without conducting direct tests for quality. 

Thus, modern breeding tools based on plant genomics research have a major role to play in speeding up the genetic gain for wheat quality through many ways, including discovery of desirable alleles/genetic variatiants and increasing the efficiency of plant breeding. Therefore, in this issue, we welcome research papers and review articles which focus on developing genetic resources and applying translational genomics for improvement of wheat quality parameters.

Dr. Ajay Kumar
Dr. Santosh Kumar
Guest Editors

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