There was frequent rainfall during the season 2014-15 in North western part of India. Please give me the traits that need to be targeted during normal course of wheat breeding.
selection of genotype with solid stem and high spike would be good for development of lodging resistant cultivars in wheat . I think tissue mechanism plays major role to develop lodging resistant cultivars.
First of all you can go for dwarf type and later you look for early type and high HI types, thick stem as pointed out by Dr.Kishor.
Plant height, dwarf or semi dwarf genotypes with High harvest index will be the best choice .... ( Khush G. S. (2001). Green revolution: the way forward. Nature Reviews Genetics, 2: 815-822) will be helpful
Deep rooted, dwarf genotypes will be more efficient for this purpose
In general the big improvement in lodging comes with the use of semi-dwarf germplasm as mentioned earlier. However, there is great variation in this associated with cell flexibility (bend but don't break). Selection is most appropriate in nurseries designed to push the lodging threshold including high N and P with dense seeding and irrigation. One way to reduce lodging is to reduce spike size and weight which is not the goal for improving yield so one has to be careful about just using traits. Amir Ibrahim at Texas A&M has a good deal of experience in breeding for lodging resistance http://soilcrop.tamu.edu/professors/ibrahim/profile.htm
Sir, reduced skipe size may cause to decline the yield. So what to do?
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