Alsamadany Hameed, Ahmed Zaheer, Alzahrani Yahya
Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Center for Advanced Studies in Agriculture and Food Security (CAS-AFS), University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Saudi J Biol Sci. 2022 Jul;29(7):103310. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2022.103310. Epub 2022 May 20.
A part of the big three cereal crops in the world, wheat has become a major constituent of the everyday food chain and is grown at a massive scale to meet global demands. This makes it an important crop from an economic as well as food security perspective. Selection of high-quality cultivars and consistent trait enhancement for such cultivars is crucial, and in light of new challenges from climate change, this has become an absolute necessity of time. In this regard, we conducted a detailed qualitative and quantitative trait analysis for multiple commercially viable varieties of wheat, and corresponding results were subjected to a series of critical statistical analyses. Final results have shown that five cultivars including Uqaab-2000, Faisalabad- 85, Anmol-19, NARC-2009, and Pirsabak-2004 depicts higher levels of various essential qualitative and quantitative traits (including Starch content, grain weight, RS content, Protein content, etc.) and are most viable varieties for further growth and trait enhancements to meet regional and global food challenges.
小麦是世界三大谷类作物之一，已成为日常食物链的主要组成部分，并被大规模种植以满足全球需求。从经济和粮食安全角度来看，这使其成为一种重要作物。选择高质量品种并持续增强此类品种的性状至关重要，鉴于气候变化带来的新挑战，这已成为时代的绝对必要之事。在这方面，我们对多个具有商业可行性的小麦品种进行了详细的定性和定量性状分析，并对相应结果进行了一系列严格的统计分析。最终结果表明，包括Uqaab - 2000、费萨拉巴德 - 85、Anmol - 19、NARC - 2009和Pirsabak - 2004在内的五个品种表现出较高水平的各种重要定性和定量性状（包括淀粉含量、粒重、抗性淀粉含量、蛋白质含量等），是进一步种植和性状改良以应对区域和全球粮食挑战的最具可行性的品种。
