1. RI perspectives from crop group
parallel sessions
Wheat
State of the research by 2014 and
beyond

2. Wheat Projects in the RI
Molecular breeding and selection strategies to combine and
validate QTL for improving WUE and heat tolerance of wheat
in India – Vinod Prabhu
Molecular breeding and selection strategies to combine and
validate QTL for improving WUE and heat tolerance of wheat
in China – Ruilian Jing
Generating new wheat germplasm with enhanced
drought/heat tolerance using AB genome genetic diversity –
Satish Misra
Breeder friendly high-throughput phenotyping tools to select
for wheat adaptive traits in drought environments – Fernanda
Dreccer

3. Overall
• All projects have some activities that may need
support beyond 2014
• In the wheat product catalogue one product
deleted and several added (14)
• Sources for documentation identified and actions
set against names to provide data to IBP
• Agreed that a more detailed costing of activities
to be completed to be provided mid October to
provide the basis of a plan going forward.

4. Molecular breeding and selection strategies to
combine and validate QTL for improving WUE
and heat tolerance of wheat in India
Products forecast December 2014
Extensive phenotype on 145 lines evaluated at 4
locations for heat and drought
QTLs for WUE identified in 4 MARS populations

5. Molecular breeding and selection strategies to
combine and validate QTL for improving WUE
and heat tolerance of wheat in India
Activities beyond 2014 (or requiring additional resources)
Sets of elite lines based on the released varieties HD2733;
HD2967; GW322; GW366; PBW343 with pyramided QTLs
for drought and heat tolerance from MABC (2016)
Series of elite lines with accumulated with QTL for heat
and drought coming from four MARS populations.
DH derived lines from MABC from crosses of HD2967 with
Babax, Excalibur and Krichauff

6. Molecular breeding and selection strategies to combine
and validate QTL for improving WUE and heat tolerance
of wheat in India
Part of the
Part of the project team – New Delhi

7. Molecular breeding and selection strategies to
combine and validate QTL for improving WUE
and heat tolerance of wheat in China
Products forecast December 2014
A winter wheat cultivar released. Developed using MABC
targeting QTL for stem water soluble carbohydrates and
thousand kernel weight using 2 SSR markers (depending on
2013 results). Zongmai36
Extensive phenotype of 145 lines evaluated at 4 locations for
heat and drought in China
SSR markers for major QTL for plant height and drought
tolerance in Chinese elite lines.

8. Molecular breeding and selection strategies to
combine and validate QTL for improving WUE
and heat tolerance of wheat in China
Activities beyond 2014 (or requiring additional resources)
Winter and spring wheat lines developed from MARS with
stacked QTL for drought tolerance in 2 populations (2016)
Three winter wheat MARS populations multiplied for
phenotyping in 2017 (2016)

9. Molecular breeding and selection strategies to combine
and validate QTL for improving WUE and heat tolerance
of wheat in China
Part of the project team

10. Generating new wheat germplasm with enhanced
drought/heat tolerance using AB genome genetic
diversity
Products forecast December 2014
105 emmer based primary synthetic hexaploids (with phenotype)
48 Indian emmer wheats genotyped & phenotyped
1016 emmer based hexaploid double haploids with heat & drought
phenotype from Australia
800 BC1F3:5 emmer based hexaploids with heat & drought phenotype
from Australia

11. Generating new wheat germplasm with
enhanced drought/heat tolerance using AB
genome genetic diversity
Activities beyond 2014 (or requiring additional resources)
Genotyping of 1016 emmer based hexaploids to confirm
AB genome diversity before extensive phenotyping in
India
Phenotyping 200 emmer based hexaploid subset in India
for drought and heat (2015)
Phenotyping of synthetic derived materials developed in
India in India (300 lines) (2016)

12. Generating new wheat germplasm with enhanced
drought/heat tolerance using AB genome genetic
diversity
Part of the project team – in the field
in Maharashtra

13. Breeder friendly high-throughput phenotyping tools to
select for wheat adaptive traits in drought
environments
Products forecast December 2014
Novel large-scale phenotyping methodologies for drought
adaptive traits in spring wheat based on a combination of
methods (Crop reflectance; canopy temp and visual
observations)
A database for up to 245 genotypes of the phenotypic
expression for ground cover (GC), canopy temperature
(CT), carbon isotope discrimination (CID), soluble stem
carbohydrates (SSC) and yield and agronomic traits

14. Breeder friendly high-throughput phenotyping
tools to select for wheat adaptive traits in
drought environments
Activities beyond 2014 (or requiring additional resources)
Method combining image capture and crop simulation
modelling to estimate patterns of WU and Transpiration
Efficiency throughout the growth cycle
Environment characterization of key locations in India &
China using historical weather records to estimate most
probable in season stress occurrences (new activity)