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Genetic Gains in Wheat Breeding and Its Role in Feeding the World

Genetic Gains in Wheat Breeding and Its Role in Feeding the World

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DOI 10.20900/cbgg20190005
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年,卷(期) 2019, 1(1)
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1 International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Rabat P. O. Box 6299, Morocco;
2 Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), Barton ACT 2600, Australia

Abstract
Wheat is the leading global food crop providing 19% of the daily calories and 21% of protein requirements for humans. The wheat production has increased from 220 million tons in 1961 to 750 million tons in 2018 with total production area of 220 million hectares which showed insignificant changes across years. The development of high yielding and widely adapted semi-dwarf input responsive wheat varieties, application of fertilizer, pesticides, irrigation, mechanization and implementation of favorable policies have contributed to such significant jump in wheat production at global level. The average annual genetic gain of wheat has been reported to be 1% while the demand for wheat increases by 1.7% annually reaching a total of 1 billion tons in 2050. To this end, conventional and molecular breeding strategies and approaches such as inter-country shuttle breeding, doubled haploid breeding, speed breeding, marker assisted selection, genomic selection, key location phenotyping and hybrid wheat breeding should be utilized intensively. The international wheat breeding programs at CIMMYT and ICARDA have developed and distributed germplasm to the world in the past 4 or more decades during which hundreds of high yielding and widely adapted wheat varieties with resistance tolerance to the major prevailing abiotic and biotic stresses have been released and adopted. Breeding progress or genetic gains in wheat has been determined by different authors with average relative gains reaching up to 2.5% per year. This paper reviews the global challenges facing demand and supply of wheat, the strategies to increase breeding efficiency and genetic gains, the impacts of the international wheat breeding and its progress, and future strategies to increase wheat production while conserving the natural resource base.
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genetic gain; improvement; production; wheat
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Wuletaw Tadesse * , Miguel Sanchez-Garcia , Solomon Gizaw Assefa , Ahmed Amri , Zewdie Bishaw , Francis C. Ogbonnaya , Michael Baum . Genetic Gains in Wheat Breeding and Its Role in Feeding the World, Crop Breeding, Genetics and Genomics. 2019; 1; (1). https://doi.org/10.20900/cbgg20190005.

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此文已被Nature等国际顶级期刊引用,被引高达230余次,确实是很顶尖的论文。值得我们学习。


2025-09-16 05:56:25谢**华南农业******已认证✔

This review article titled "Genetic Gains in Wheat Breeding and Its Role in Feeding the World," published in Crop Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, is a highly valuable and influential paper that provides a comprehensive, systematic, and in-depth review of the achievements in genetic gains in global wheat breeding and its critical role in ensuring world food security. Written by an authoritative team of experts from international agricultural research institutions such as ICARDA and CIMMYT, the content is well-supported, data-rich, clearly structured, and possesses significant academic reference value and practical guidance. The authorship team brings profound expertise and extensive field experience from top-tier international organizations, ensuring the scientific credibility and authority of the article. The paper thoroughly covers key aspects of wheat improvement, including historical context, utilization of genetic resources, advances in breeding technologies, international collaboration networks, methods for assessing genetic gains, and future prospects, with particular emphasis on the important role of wild relatives and synthetic wheats in enhancing stress resistance and quality traits, highlighting the importance of genetic diversity. It is backed by substantial empirical data, including historical yield statistics, genetic gain rates, number of varieties released, and percentage of area planted, such as the fact that CGIAR-related varieties account for over 70% of the wheat area in developing countries, making the arguments highly persuasive. The article is well-illustrated with figures and tables, especially Figure 1 (global wheat yield and area changes), Figure 3 (comparison of conventional and anther culture breeding cycles), and Figure 5 (yield performance of genotypes across different environments), which visually demonstrate breeding progress. It underscores the immense contribution of international cooperation and resource sharing, detailing how CIMMYT and ICARDA have significantly impacted global wheat production through international testing networks, germplasm distribution, and training courses, embodying the spirit of "science without borders" and emphasizing modern breeding models involving north-south collaboration, public-private partnerships, and resource sharing, which have strong practical relevance. Beyond summarizing past achievements, the article proactively outlines future priorities for wheat breeding, such as gene mining and utilization (e.g., the FIGS strategy), genomic selection (GS) and molecular breeding, improving photosynthetic efficiency, developing hybrid wheat, and simultaneous improvement of stress tolerance and nutritional quality, offering strategic insights for addressing climate change, population growth, and resource constraints. The writing is standardized, well-structured, logically sound, precise, and fluent, ensuring good readability despite being a specialized review, and its open-access mode allows free download and dissemination worldwide, broadening its impact. In summary, this paper is an important synthesis in the field of wheat breeding, not only scientifically summarizing genetic progress over recent decades but also providing a clear roadmap for future breeding strategies, fully demonstrating the central role of international cooperation and technological innovation in addressing global food security challenges, making it highly valuable for researchers, breeders, policymakers, and students alike, and worthy of broad recommendation and citation.


2025-09-16 04:09:33段**西南******已认证✔

此文已被Nature等国际顶级期刊引用,被引高达230余次,具有广泛的学术影响力.


2025-09-16 11:17:11宋**杭州市农******已认证✔

This is an exceptionally well-written and high-quality review paper. The authors provide a systematic and comprehensive overview of the genetic gains achieved in global wheat breeding, key breeding strategies, and their significant contributions to safeguarding global food security. The article is logically structured, with clear reasoning supported by detailed data. It covers all aspects, from germplasm resource utilization to the application of modern molecular breeding techniques, demonstrating considerable academic value and practical guidance. Firstly, the paper demonstrates remarkable comprehensiveness and systematic rigour. Its research scope is vast, encompassing virtually all core domains of wheat breeding. Specific areas include: the evolutionary history and utilisation systems of wheat germplasm resources (such as the classification and application of primary, secondary, and tertiary gene banks); the practical contributions of genetic resources towards yield enhancement, stress tolerance (including drought, heat stress, salt stress, etc.), disease resistance, and quality improvement, supplemented by rich case studies (such as the utilisation of the Sr2 gene and the breeding value of synthetic wheat); high-efficiency breeding methodologies employed by international wheat breeding networks (represented by CIMMYT and ICARDA), including shuttle breeding, double haploid breeding, marker-assisted selection, genomic selection, and key-point phenotyping, with an assessment of their global impact; finally, it outlines future research directions, such as gene mining, enhancing photosynthetic efficiency, developing hybrid wheat, and genetically modified wheat. Secondly, the paper is underpinned by robust data. It draws extensively from authoritative sources (such as FAO yield statistics, variety adoption rates, and economic impact assessments) alongside both classic and cutting-edge literature (totalling 107 references), ensuring each argument is supported by credible evidence and enhancing the persuasiveness of the discourse. Thirdly, the paper offers strong practical guidance. It not only systematically reviews theoretical frameworks but also details operational procedures for multiple breeding strategies. These include ICARDA's shuttle breeding implementation pathway and methodologies for constructing training, breeding, and validation populations in genomic selection. This provides a significant reference value for global wheat breeders. Moreover, the paper adheres to rigorous writing standards with fluent language and precise terminology. The included figures (Figures 1, 3, 4, 5) are clear and appropriately presented, effectively supporting the textual content and enhancing information transmission efficiency. Finally, the paper demonstrates an ambitious scope, consistently anchoring its discussion to the critical theme of 'nourishing the world through breeding science'. It highlights wheat genetic improvement's pivotal role in global food security, underscoring both the research's depth and its societal significance. Whilst the paper demonstrates a high level of overall completion, certain aspects could be further refined to achieve an even more polished presentation. For instance, when discussing the application prospects of genetically modified wheat (GM Wheat), the main non-technical barriers it faces—such as divergent regulatory policies across nations, public acceptance, market access, and intellectual property issues—could be explored in greater detail, rather than merely briefly mentioning 'low public acceptance'. Such supplementation would lend greater nuance to the analysis and more comprehensively reflect the real-world environment confronting the commercialisation of GM wheat.


2025-07-31 05:11:20ha**

文章回顾了小麦供需面临的全球挑战、提高育种效率和遗传增益的策略、国际小麦育种及其进展的影响,以及在保护自然资源基础的同时提高小麦产量的未来策略。此文已被Nature等国际顶级期刊引用,被引高达230余次,值得细品。