Durum wheat

Improving yield and quality traits of durum wheat by introgressing chromosome segments from hexaploid wheat

J. Ma, Zhang, C. Y., Yan, G. J., and Liu, C. J., Improving yield and quality traits of durum wheat by introgressing chromosome segments from hexaploid wheat, vol. 12, pp. 6120-6129, 2013.

Durum wheat (Triticum turgidum durum; 2n = 4x = 28; genome AABB) has long been an important food resource for human diets. The projected increase of the world’s population to 9.1 billion by 2050 has highlighted the importance and urgency for improving the yield and quality performance of durum wheat.

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