The contribution of distant hybridization with decaploid Agropyron elongatum to wheat improvement in China

作     者：Zhensheng Li Bin Li Yiping Tong 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100101 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Genetics and Genomics》 (遗传学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第35卷第8期

页      面：451-456页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 07[理学] 09[农学] 071007[理学-遗传学] 0901[农学-作物学] 090102[农学-作物遗传育种] 

基　　金：Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KSCXZ-YW-N-059 and KSCX1-YW-03) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30330390 and 30521001) the State Key Basic Research and Development Plan of China (No.2005CB 120904 

主　　题：wheat improvement distant hybridization Agropyron elongatum light use efficiency 

摘      要：Wheat is a staple food crop in the world as well as in China. Because of the progress of wheat breeding and other agricultural ＂sci-technologies, the wheat grain yield per unit area has increased more than five folds from 1952 to 2006 in China. The first part of this article briefly reviews the history of wheat breeding in China. Second, the establishment of ＂Triticum aestivum-Agropyron＂ distant hybridization system and its contribution to wheat production and breeding in China are summarized. Finally, the future challenges of wheat breeding are discussed, which include how to increase the utilization efficiencies of water, soil nutrient and light energy through breeding. As an example, our research progress on how to increase light use efficiency in wheat through breeding is introduced and discussed.