Emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccon Schrank) improves water use efficiency and yield of hexaploid bread wheat.

Emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccon Schrank) is a potential source of new genetic diversity for the improvement of hexaploid bread wheat. Emmer wheat was crossed and backcrossed to bread wheat and 480 doubled haploids (DHs) were produced from BC1F1 plants with hexaploid appearance derived from 19 crossses. These DHs were screened under well-watered conditions (E1) in 2013 to identify high-yielding materials with similar phenology. One-hundred and eighty seven DH lines selected on this basis, 4 commercial bread wheat cultivars and 9 bread wheat parents were then evaluated in extensive field experiments under two contrasting moisture regimes in north-western NSW in 2014 and 2015. A significant range in the water-use-efficiency of grain production (WUEGrain) was observed among the emmer derivatives. Of these, 8 hexaploid lines developed from 8 different emmer wheat parents had significantly improved intrinsic water-use-efficiency (WUEintr) and instantaneous water-use-efficiency (WUEi) compared to their bread wheat recurrent parents. Accurate and large scale field-based phenotyping was effective in identifying emmer wheat derived lines with superior performance to their hexaploid bread wheat recurrent parents under moisture stress.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Plant Science

• Publication date

  2020-06-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Biology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.PLANTSCI.2019.110212PMID 32534607
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Biplot analysis of multi-environment trial data.

  2020cited by this paper
• High‐Throughput Field Phenotyping to Assess Irrigation Treatment Effects in Quinoa

  2019cited by this paper
• New breeding tools impact Canadian commercial farmer fields

  2018cited by this paper
• Emmer wheat Rudico can extend the spectra of cultivated plants – Short Communication

  2018cited by this paper
• Genetic Contribution of Emmer Wheat (Triticum dicoccon Schrank) to Heat Tolerance of Bread Wheat

  2018cited by this paper
• Variation of Morphological and Agronomic Traits in Hybrids of Trifolium pratense × T. medium and a Comparison with the Parental Species

  2018cited by this paper
• High photosynthetic rate and water use efficiency of Miscanthus lutarioriparius characterize an energy crop in the semiarid temperate region

  2015cited by this paper
• From Ideotypes to Genotypes: Approaches to Adapt Wheat Phenology to Climate Change

  2015cited by this paper
• Water use efficiency and consumption in different Brazilian genotypes of Jatropha curcas L. subjected to soil water deficit.

  2015cited by this paper
• Quantification of the effects of VRN1 and Ppd-D1 to predict spring wheat (Triticum aestivum) heading time across diverse environments

  2013cited by this paper
• Dharabi-11: A new high yielding drought and disease tolerant wheat variety

  2013cited by this paper
• Effects of drought and high temperature stress on synthetic hexaploid wheat.

  2012cited by this paper
• Independent variation in photosynthetic capacity and stomatal conductance leads to differences in intrinsic water use efficiency in 11 soybean genotypes before and during mild drought.

  2011cited by this paper
• δ(13) C of leaf-respired CO(2) reflects intrinsic water-use efficiency in barley.

  2011cited by this paper
• Relationships of stable carbon isotopes, plant water potential and growth: an approach to asses water use efficiency and growth strategies of dry land agroforestry species

  2011cited by this paper
• Genetic and management approaches to boost UK wheat yields by ameliorating water deficits.

  2011cited by this paper
• A study to incorporate high protein content from tetraploid wheat (T. turgidum dicoccoides) to hexaploid wheat (T. aestivum vulgare)

  2010cited by this paper
• Genetic diversity for grain nutrients in wild emmer wheat: potential for wheat improvement.

  2010cited by this paper
• NOTES ON NEGLECTED AND UNDERUTILIZED CROPS Cultivated emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccon Schrank), an old crop with promising future: a review

  2010cited by this paper
• EMMER WHEAT USING AND GROWING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

  2010cited by this paper
• Partitioning of assimilates to deeper roots is associated with cooler canopies and increased yield under drought in wheat

  2010cited by this paper
• Genomic dissection of drought resistance in durum wheat x wild emmer wheat recombinant inbreed line population.

  2009cited by this paper
• Regulation of Transpiration to Improve Crop Water Use

  2009cited by this paper
• Effective use of water (EUW) and not water-use efficiency (WUE) is the target of crop yield improvement under drought stress

  2009cited by this paper
• Translational research impacting on crop productivity in drought-prone environments.

  2008cited by this paper
• Investigation on the relationship between leaf water use efficiency and physio-biochemical traits of winter wheat under rained condition.

  2008cited by this paper
• Carbon isotopes and water use efficiency: sense and sensitivity

  2008cited by this paper
• Overproduction of Abscisic Acid in Tomato Increases Transpiration Efficiency and Root Hydraulic Conductivity and Influences Leaf Expansion1[OA]

  2007cited by this paper
• The role of root architectural traits in adaptation of wheat to water-limited environments.

  2006cited by this paper
• Grain Quality of Emmer Wheat Derived Synthetic Hexaploid Wheats

  2006cited by this paper
• Improving agricultural water use efficiency in arid and semiarid areas of China

  2006cited by this paper
• Drought resistance, water-use efficiency, and yield potential-are they compatible, dissonant, or mutually exclusive?

  2005cited by this paper
• On the Relationship between Carbon Isotope Discrimination and the Intercellular Carbon Dioxide Concentration in Leaves

  2005cited by this paper
• Improved Water Use Efficiency Associated with Cultivars and Agronomic Management in the North China Plain

  2005cited by this paper
• Genotype × environment interaction in carbon isotope discrimination and seed yield in cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.)

  2004cited by this paper
• Improving Intrinsic Water-Use Efficiency and Crop Yield.

  2002cited by this paper
• Increasing Water Use and Water Use Efficiency in Dryland Wheat

  2001cited by this paper
• Dicamba and growth condition effects on doubled haploid production in durum wheat crossed with maize

  2000cited by this paper
• Drought stress inhibits photosynthesis by decreasing stomatal aperture – not by affecting ATP synthesis

  2000cited by this paper
• Effect of lamp type and temperature on development, carbon partitioning and yield of soybean.

  1997cited by this paper
• Agronomic and Grain Quality Evaluations of Triticum aestivum × Aegilops tauschii Backcross Populations

  1997cited by this paper
• Use of winter wheat x Triticum tauschii backcross populations for germplasm evaluation

  1995cited by this paper
• Genetic Analysis of Quantitative Traits in Wild Emmer (Triticum turgidum L. var. dicoccoides)

  1991cited by this paper
• Estimation of heritability and prediction of selection response in plant populations

  1991cited by this paper
• Associations between productivity, root growth and carbon isotope discrimination in Phaseolus vulgaris under water deficit.

  1990cited by this paper
• Carbon Isotope Discrimination and Photosynthesis

  1989cited by this paper
• Non‐stomatal limitation of CO2 assimilation in three tree species during natural drought conditions

  1986cited by this paper
• Genetical aspects of breeding for improved grain protein content and type in wheat

  1983cited by this paper
• Infrared thermal sensing of plant canopies as a screening technique for dehydration avoidance in wheat

  1982cited by this paper
• Stomatal conductance and photosynthesis

  1982cited by this paper
• On the Relationship Between Carbon Isotope Discrimination and the Intercellular Carbon Dioxide Concentration in Leaves

  1982cited by this paper
• A decimal code for the growth stages of cereals

  1974cited by this paper

• Pentaploidization allows introgression of Aegilops tauschii into tetraploid wheat

  2025cites this paper
• Characteristics and Cytological Analysis of Several Novel Allopolyploids and Aneuploids between Brassica oleracea and Raphanus sativus

  2024cites this paper
• Heat stress in wheat: a global challenge to feed billions in the current era of the changing climate

  2023cites this paper
• Phenolic Acids Profiles and Phenolic Concentrations of Emmer Cultivars in Response to Growing Year under Organic Management

  2023cites this paper
• Exploiting Wild Emmer Wheat Diversity to Improve Wheat A and B Genomes in Breeding for Heat Stress Adaptation

  2022cites this paper
• Differences in Water Consumption of Wheat Varieties Are Affected by Root Morphology Characteristics and Post-anthesis Root Senescence

  2022cites this paper
• Morpho-physiological responses of diverse emmer wheat genotypes to terminal water stress

  2021cites this paper
• Genome-wide association study of multiple traits linked to heat tolerance in emmer-derived hexaploid wheat genotypes

  2021cites this paper
• Introducing Beneficial Alleles from Plant Genetic Resources into the Wheat Germplasm

  2021cites this paper
• Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.): A Crop to Mitigate Food and Nutritional Challenges

  2021cites this paper
• Future challenges for global food security under climate change.

  2020cites this paper
• Breeding strategies for enhancing nutrient content and quality in Cucurbitaceae: a review

  2020cites this paper
• Implications of emmer (Triticum dicoccon Schrank) introgression on bread wheat response to heat stress.

  2020cites this paper
• Production of synthetic wheat lines to exploit the genetic diversity of emmer wheat and D genome containing Aegilops species in wheat breeding

  2020cites this paper
• The impact of emmer genetic diversity on grain protein content and test weight of hexaploid wheat under high temperature stress

  2020cites this paper