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DFW - Designing Future Wheat - Work package 2 (WP2) - Added value and resilience

Reference	BBS/E/C/000I0250
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Kim Hammond-Kosack
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors	Dr Konstantin Kanyuka, Dr Alison Lovegrove, Professor Graham Moore, Professor Peter Shewry, Professor Cristobal Uauy
Institution	Rothamsted Research
Department	Rothamsted Research Department
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	6,810,998
Status	Current
Type	Institute Project
Start date	01/04/2017
End date	31/03/2023
Duration	59 months

Abstract

Food and nutrition security requires safe access to affordable and nutritious food supplies. WP2 aims to enhance grain quality for human health, combat non-communicable diet-related diseases and improve the resilience of wheat production systems to biotic stresses. It addresses two topics, with shared objectives across DFW and other RRes, JIC, EI, Quadram and NIAB programmes. Both exploit previous BBSRC investments in germplasm resources and the latest genomic developments, to understand and manipulate the genes and pathways defining wheat grain composition and host resistance/susceptibility to pathogens/pests. WP2 researchers will dissect a range of traits exploiting the germplasm and other resources developed within DFW. These traits include resistance to a range of pathogens and pests (including rusts, Zymoseptoria, Fusarium, take-all, mildew, eyespot and aphids) and finally the quantity and quality of starch, dietary fibre and minerals in grain

Summary

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Committee	Not funded via Committee
Research Topics	Crop Science, Diet and Health, Plant Science
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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