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Transgenic Triticale (Triticum durum x Secale cereale)

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Transgenic Crops I

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 46))

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Selection breeding with promising hexaploid triticale was started in 1948 by O’Mara, who produced the hybrid from Secale cereale and Triticum durum. Twenty years later, CIMMYT, Mexico, produced the first acceptable cultivar, Armadillo, with almost complete fertility, better yield, early maturity, improved test weight, and one gene for dwarfness. Over the years, other traits like nutritional quality, disease resistance, and preharvest sprouting have also been improved. Today, over one million ha has been cultivated in Russia, Poland, the USA, Canada, West Germany, Argentina, Mexico, France, Portugal, Spain, and other countries. The most widely grown triticale in the world is the Polish cultivar Lasko. Triticale can now be considered a viable commercial crop with tremendous potential. It is adapted to and has excellent yield potential in all areas where wheat is grown. In addition, triticale appears to perform better than wheat in marginal production environments, such as in acid soils, at high elevations in the tropics, under semiarid conditions, and in sandy soils (Villareal et al. 1990).

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Zimny, J., Lörz, H. (2000). Transgenic Triticale (Triticum durum x Secale cereale). In: Bajaj†, Y.P.S. (eds) Transgenic Crops I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59612-4_7

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