A quantum leap in wheat, barley and rye production is needed to satiate the demands of an ever-growing population under changing, often harsh, global conditions.
The sheer complexity of cereal crop genetics has hampered major progress in breeding programmes for the Triticeae, in particular wheat, barley and rye. Advances in mapping at a molecular level and development of new bioinformatic tools to structure, relate and comprehensively analyse large-scale genomics data have enabled robust genetic programmes geared to the Triticeae.
Further details: Meteoric progress for cereal genomics