I/UCRC Project Goals and Deliverables:
MISSION: The mission of this cooperative research center is to mobilize genetic diversity to enhance wheat yield and meet food security needs.
- Train students who can rapidly contribute to industry objectives and breeding targets.
- Develop new natural and induced methods for using wheat genetic diversity.
- Initiate rapid improvement of a global wheat crop and improve functionality of wheat.
- Significantly reduce time of identification validation and integration of genetic traits into a market ready variety.
- Develop and Apply methods to incorporate high-value wheat traits in breeding programs for sustainable crop production.
