Title: Triticale (Triticosecale): Production Through Embryo Culture
Abstract: The amphiploid triticale (× Triticosecale Wittmack), obtained from the intergeneric hybrid of Triticum and Secale, has reached the point where it can successfully compete with wheat (Triticum spp.) on a variety of soils. At present triticale varieties are being grown for commercial production in Canada, USA, Mexico, Australia, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Poland, USSR and the People’s Republic of China. Many other countries are in the advanced stages of variety testing and several additional varieties will be released in the near future. Triticale is becoming an important new cereal crop because of its ability to grow on soils where wheat is not well adapted, and to supply a grain which is excellent for animal and human consumption. In addition to triticale’s increasing importance as a world cereal crop, crosses between triticale and wheat have produced wheat-rye chromosome translocations and substitutions which are becoming important in wheat and triticale improvement programmes. These translocations and substitutions have made possible the transfer of desirable genes and chromosomes from wheat and rye into triticale and wheat.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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