Strategies For Enhancement In Food Production

Triticale is the first man made cereal or crop, which has been produced by mtergeneric hybridization between common wheat (Triticum aestivum) and European rye (Secale cereale) with a view to combine characters of these two parent plants. Triticale is hexaploid, i.e, 2n = 6x = 62 (when fetraploid wheat is used) or octaploid, i.e., 2n = 8x = 56 (when hexaploid wheat is used). Triticale or Triticoseca/e is not suitable for purpose of bread making due to low glutein content, but it is a good forage crop.