Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is the second most important food crop in India only after rice and providing food for about 2 billion people which is about 36% of the world population. Annual production of wheat and rice together should be increase by 2 mt every year in order to maintain self-sufficiency for wheat in India. The demand of wheat is projected to be 109 mt by 2020 in India. Globally, the demand for wheat by the year 2020 is forecasted to be around 950 mt. | Heat tolerance in wheat - A key strategy to combat climate change through molecular markers
