Key message The review outlines past failures, present status and future prospects of hybrid
wheat, and includes information on CMS/CHA/transgenic approaches for male sterility …

Publisher Summary The importance of wheat as a human food provides incentive for
continuing worldwide effort to improve its productivity. The discovery of an effective …

Hybrid technology in crop plants, especially cross-pollinated crops is successfully used for
enhanced production. However, it remains unutilized in the self-pollinated crops, especially …

Global food security demands the development and delivery of new technologies to
increase and secure cereal production on finite arable land without increasing water and …

The common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a poly (hexa) ploid, derived from an amphi-
diploidization process involving the donor species—Triticum urartu, Aegilops speltoides …

Key message Global wheat genetic diversity can be used in a unified framework to support
and accelerate hybrid breeding and the development of heterotic groups in wheat. Abstract …

Key message Commercial heterosis for grain yield is present in hybrid wheat but long-term
competiveness of hybrid versus line breeding depends on the development of heterotic …

Abstract Wheat (Triticum spp. L; Gramineae), a self-pollinating crop, is one of the most
important cereal crops. Globally, wheat is an economic crop, utilized as food, feed, seed and …

This book consists of 44 chapters contained in 13 parts by various authors. The first and
second parts deal with the origin of cultivated wheat and the genetic basis of worldwide …

Abstract “The view generally entertained by naturalists is that species, when intercrossed,
have been specially endowed with the quality of sterility, in order to prevent the confusion of …