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Project presentation: Innovative wheat breeding – fast phenotyping and DNA marker assisted selection for improved phosphorus uptake efficiency and aluminium tolerance

In the coming years agriculture will face great challenges: increased demand for food, climate changes and the lack of suitable land. Acid soils present the most important limiting factor of agricultural production and low yield, especially in cereals is caused by aluminium toxicity and phosphorus deficiency. One of the solutions is breeding of new cultivars with increased tolerance to aluminium toxicity as well as better phosphorus uptake and use efficiency. The aims of this project are: i) to initialise the innovative wheat breeding pipeline through the development of fast phenotyping and genotyping protocol and expert training ; and ii) to detect potentially prospective genotypes as the initial breeding material.

wheat; phosphorus; aluminium; root phenotyping; association mapping

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