To achieve a quantum jump in wheat productivity in India, there is a need to design a new plant type, combining negatively correlated yield components in a single genotypc of very high yield potential. In this endeavour new plant type combining two negatively correlated traits high tillers with high grain weight and high grain weight with high grain number/ear) have been successfully combined resulting in significantly high yields. The second phase advance generation materials are in pipeline, which have optimum combination of all three yield components and also carry alien genes (Lr24/Sr24) for leaf and stem rusts resistance, would have further increased in yield potential.
Plant Type, Rust Resistance, Wheat, Yield Components
