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Triticale Breeding—Progress and Prospect

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Triticale is a man-made cereal crop that can be synthesized by hybridizing wheat and rye with the intent to combine the superior agronomic performance and end-use qualities of wheat with the stress tolerance (both biotic and abiotic) and adaptability of rye. Despite the significant improvements made in modern triticale cultivars with respect to agronomic performance and disease resistance, many challenges remain related to its end-use quality particularly for human consumption and wider adoption as a viable commercial corp. In the past decade, new breeding tools and enabling technologies (doubled haploid, marker assisted selection, genomics selection, transgenic, functional genomics, and targeted genome editing) have been developed and successfully exploited in other crops. Through the integration of these tools and technologies with conventional plant breeding approaches, triticale has the potential to be a successful future crop.

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  2. Wheat and Triticale Breeder, Cereal Research Ltd., POB 391, Szeged, 6701, Hungary

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Randhawa, H.S., Bona, L., Graf, R.J. (2015). Triticale Breeding—Progress and Prospect. In: Eudes, F. (eds) Triticale. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22551-7_2

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