The new and improved wheat assembly will help
wheat breeders accelerate their crop improvement programmes and researchers to discover genes for key traits such as yield, nutrient use and bread making quality.
GOBii, which stands for Genomic Open - source Breeding Informatics Initiative, seeks to develop a publicly accessible genomics database to enable public sector
breeders to
accelerate genetic gains initially to support five major staple crops: rice, maize, chickpea, sorghum, and
wheat.