CIMMYT winter wheat product profiles 2022

Detailed target product profiles for CIMMYT winter wheat breeding 2022. The product profiles are the trait specifications for selection and release of material from the two CIMMYT winter wheat breeding pipelines: (1) Hard winter, cold tolerant & irrigated, normal maturity (denoted HWW-CTI-NM) and (2) Hard winter, cold tolerant, drought tolerant, normal maturity (denoted HWW-CTD-NM). Product profiles are defined as in the Excellence in Breeding Toolbox for “product design and management” (https://excellenceinbreeding.org/toolbox/tools/cgiar-seed-product-market-segment-database).

Traits include grain and processing traits, nutritional enhancement, agronomic and disease traits. For winter wheat, no specific production, multiplication, or unique product registration traits apply in 2022 so these fields in the product profiles are marked as not applicable (NA). Traits are listed by category and assigned a measurement scale which is used in selection along with a minimum score. The traits are differentiated by requirement: either as “must have” or “nice to have” as well as the requirement for improvement (vs. maintenance). Indication of a trait as a threshold trait indicates it is a requirement for release of material from the breeding pipeline.