Department of Agriculture, Crop Improvement Institute, Locked Bag No 4,Bentley WA 6983, Australia. mfrancki@agric.wa.gov.au
Genetic mapping and determination of the organization of the wheat genome are changing the wheat-breeding process. New initiatives to analyze the expressed portion of the wheat genome and structural analysis of the genomes of Arabidopsis and rice are increasing our knowledge of the genes that are linked to key agronomically important traits.