Fig. 2.

Research and breeding activities surrounding wheat genetic resources plotted against time (x-axis) and impact on wheat improvement (y-axis). QTL mapping, GWAS and genetic diversity studies will continue with discovery of new technologies and have given low impact as very little has been converted into resources that are actually used in breeding and gene discovery. The major impact of genomics technologies will be in reducing the time to characterize and deploy useful variation with reduced linkage drag.