Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco

Wheat is the most important food crop which originated in the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of human civilization. Currently, it grows an average of 220 million hectares globally with an annual production level of 810 million tons. In Morocco, wheat is grown on 3.2 million hectares, with production l...

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Autores principales: Tadesse, Wuletaw, Zakaria, EL Gataa, Rachdad, Fatima Ezzahra, Lahrichi, Khaoula, Diria, Ghizlan, Amamou, Ali, Jlibene, Mohammed, Al-Shamaa, Khaled, Kehel, Zakaria
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168718
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author Tadesse, Wuletaw
Zakaria, EL Gataa
Rachdad, Fatima Ezzahra
Lahrichi, Khaoula
Diria, Ghizlan
Amamou, Ali
Jlibene, Mohammed
Al-Shamaa, Khaled
Kehel, Zakaria
author_browse Al-Shamaa, Khaled
Amamou, Ali
Diria, Ghizlan
Jlibene, Mohammed
Kehel, Zakaria
Lahrichi, Khaoula
Rachdad, Fatima Ezzahra
Tadesse, Wuletaw
Zakaria, EL Gataa
author_facet Tadesse, Wuletaw
Zakaria, EL Gataa
Rachdad, Fatima Ezzahra
Lahrichi, Khaoula
Diria, Ghizlan
Amamou, Ali
Jlibene, Mohammed
Al-Shamaa, Khaled
Kehel, Zakaria
author_sort Tadesse, Wuletaw
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description Wheat is the most important food crop which originated in the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of human civilization. Currently, it grows an average of 220 million hectares globally with an annual production level of 810 million tons. In Morocco, wheat is grown on 3.2 million hectares, with production levels ranging from 3 to 7 million tons/year, depending on the amount and distribution of rainfall. Like many other countries in the CWANA region, wheat production in Morocco is affected by climate change, drought, heat, diseases (rusts, septoria, fusarium), and insect pests such as Hessian fly. Wheat breeding in Morocco started in the late 1920s, and since 1980, the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) has released more than 52 varieties of bread wheat. This paper reviews and summarizes the wheat production and challenges, including the seed system, the wheat breeding history and methodologies, achievements, and prospects of accelerated wheat breeding, including modified shuttle breeding, doubled haploids, speed breeding, genomic selection, and hybrid wheat, which shorten breeding cycles and enhance the precision of trait selection. Rapid development and deployment of climate-smart wheat varieties, along with improved crop management technologies, are important to increase wheat production and ensure food security in the face of climate change.
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spelling CGSpace1687182026-01-15T02:04:20Z Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco Tadesse, Wuletaw Zakaria, EL Gataa Rachdad, Fatima Ezzahra Lahrichi, Khaoula Diria, Ghizlan Amamou, Ali Jlibene, Mohammed Al-Shamaa, Khaled Kehel, Zakaria climate change drought wheat accelerated breeding Wheat is the most important food crop which originated in the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of human civilization. Currently, it grows an average of 220 million hectares globally with an annual production level of 810 million tons. In Morocco, wheat is grown on 3.2 million hectares, with production levels ranging from 3 to 7 million tons/year, depending on the amount and distribution of rainfall. Like many other countries in the CWANA region, wheat production in Morocco is affected by climate change, drought, heat, diseases (rusts, septoria, fusarium), and insect pests such as Hessian fly. Wheat breeding in Morocco started in the late 1920s, and since 1980, the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) has released more than 52 varieties of bread wheat. This paper reviews and summarizes the wheat production and challenges, including the seed system, the wheat breeding history and methodologies, achievements, and prospects of accelerated wheat breeding, including modified shuttle breeding, doubled haploids, speed breeding, genomic selection, and hybrid wheat, which shorten breeding cycles and enhance the precision of trait selection. Rapid development and deployment of climate-smart wheat varieties, along with improved crop management technologies, are important to increase wheat production and ensure food security in the face of climate change. 2024-12-23 2025-01-08T22:01:54Z 2025-01-08T22:01:54Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168718 en Open Access application/pdf Hapres publisher Wuletaw Tadesse, EL Gataa Zakaria, Fatima Ezzahra Rachdad, Khaoula Lahrichi, Ghizlan Diria, Ali Amamou, Mohammed Jlibene, Khaled Al-Shamaa, Zakaria Kehel. (23/12/2024). Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco. Crop Breeding Genetics and Genomics, 6 (4).
spellingShingle climate change
drought
wheat
accelerated breeding
Tadesse, Wuletaw
Zakaria, EL Gataa
Rachdad, Fatima Ezzahra
Lahrichi, Khaoula
Diria, Ghizlan
Amamou, Ali
Jlibene, Mohammed
Al-Shamaa, Khaled
Kehel, Zakaria
Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco
title Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco
title_full Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco
title_fullStr Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco
title_full_unstemmed Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco
title_short Accelerated Wheat Breeding and Production in the Face of Climate Change: The Case of Morocco
title_sort accelerated wheat breeding and production in the face of climate change the case of morocco
topic climate change
drought
wheat
accelerated breeding
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168718
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