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Challenges of wheat breeding in the future. Which breeding objectives do you have to pursue in 2022 to be up to date in 2030?

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The breeding objectives are a very long-term process and require a lot of foresight to meet the future conditions. Wheat breeding, too, has to prepare for the following, currently foreseeable developments/problem areas and adapt their breeding objectives for 2030 accordingly:

Reduction of plant protection agents
Reduction of fertiliser use – lower protein content = lower quality?
Increase of organic farming to 30% - separate organic breeding with special breeding objectives
Drier and warmer vegetation periods because of climate change – heat and drought stress

In many cases, wheat breeding provides potential solutions (breeding for resistance, better protein quality, organic quality, varieties that are more resistant to heat and drought stress) for the developments/problem areas mentioned and already today has to prepare for it with the relevant breeding objectives it has to work on.

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