Fact Sheets & Infographics
About IWGSC
Published: 07/17/2014 10:00 pm
The IWGSC, with 3,000 members in 70 countries, is an international, collaborative consortium, established in 2005 by a group of wheat growers, plant scientists, and public and private breeders.
Media kit
Published: 08/16/2018 08:14 pm
IWGSC Wheat Reference Genome Publication press kit (16 August 2018) available for download
Infographic: Wheat - A Key Crop for Food Security
Published: 04/18/2018 05:48 pm
Wheat is the number one food crop consumed in the world, and the main source of calories and proteins in human diets.
Fact Sheet: How Breeders Use a Genome Reference Sequence
Published: 03/01/2018 05:50 pm
The availability of a reference genome for a crop helps plant breeders to speed up the development of new improved varieties.
Infographic: The Bread Wheat Genome
Published: 09/21/2015 09:16 am
The bread wheat genome is both extremely large and complex. It is more than five times larger than the human genome and comprises 21 chromosomes originating from three individual subgenomes with highly similar gene contents.
Infographic: The Origin of Wheat
Published: 04/21/2016 08:41 am
Today's bread wheat originates from three ancestral grass species and results from two consecutive hybridizations
Infographic: Wheat in the EU28
Published: 05/19/2015 04:02 pm
The European Union is the world’s leading wheat producer, ahead of China, India and the USA, with 20% of the total world harvest (149 million tons in 2014) on 24.4 million ha cultivated.
Infographic: How to separate chromosomes
Published: 03/23/2016 10:25 am
Chromosomes are the basic materials used to sequence the bread wheat genome, which has 21 pairs of chromosomes. How can they be separated?