About WheatME
Start of project: 01/05/2017
Duration: 5 years
The overall objective of this Palestinian-Israelian-Jordanian WheatME project is the timely delivery of knowledge, traits, and tools to wheat breeding programmes for the development of wheat cultivars with improved drought adaptation and yields.
The WheatME project aims to map a set of quantitative traits associated with yield and morpho-physiological traits under the Middle East conditions. We will develop NIL carrying these identified QTLs on a range of elite wheat cultivars from the target countries. This material will serve as the basis for breeding programs in the Middle East and other regions.
Objectives
The aim of this five-year research program is to develop elite wheat cultivars with enhanced grain yield under the Middle East drought-prone environmental conditions.
The specific objectives of this proposal are as follows:
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Genetic dissection of genomic regions associated with drought and heat tolerance under divers Middle East environments.
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Establish a core collection of elite wheat genotypes from the Middle East region for drought and heat tolerance under field conditions.
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Introgression of selected wild emmer chromosomal segments responsible for drought and heat tolerance to modern wheat
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Characterization of drought and heat tolerance in the NILs and development of associated markers for further breeding efforts.
Organisation of WheatME
The WheatME board
The management board oversees all the project activities, including the design of field experiments, data analysis, implementation, reporting, and dissemination. The WheatME board headed by Prof. Zvi Peleg (HUJ, Israel) with Eng. Nawal Al-Hajaj (NCARE, Jordan).
About WheatME
الهدف العام من هذا المشروع الفلسطيني, الإسرائيلي والأردني هو تطوير وتعاون المعرفة والأدوات لمشاريع التربية لتحسين أَنْوَاع القمح من التكيف الجفاف والغلة في الشرق الأوسط.
המטרה הכללית של הפרויקט הישראלי-ירדני, הוא פיתוח ושיתוף של ידע וכלים גנטיים שישמשו בסיס לטיפוח של זני חיטה בעלי התאמה לתנאי מחסור במים, תוך שיפור יבולים, במזרח התיכון.