Expert Working Groups

Expert Working Groups (EWGs) are established where there would be benefit from bringing together experts with a focus on a topic of relevance to the Wheat Initiative’s aims and objectives. The Wheat Initiative provides EWGs with a platform for discussion, information sharing and interaction to identify and address specific research and organisational challenges.

EWGs have clear objectives that could include (but are not limited to) specific activities such as contributing to the development and implementation of the Wheat Initiative Strategic Research Agenda, delivering position papers, stimulating and facilitating knowledge sharing within a scientific community or addressing a particular challenge through a research programme. The minimum output is an annual report for dissemination to the Wheat Initiative Committees and the wheat research community through the Wheat Initiative website.

Information on each of the EWGs established under the Wheat Initiative can be found below:

ADAPTATION OF WHEAT TO ABIOTIC STRESS
Control of Wheat Pathogens
CONTROL OF WHEAT PESTS
DURUM WHEAT GENOMICS AND BREEDING
GLOBAL WHEAT GERMPLASM CONSERVATION AND USE COMMUNITY
IMPROVING WHEAT QUALITY FOR PROCESSING AND HEALTH
NUTRIENT USE EFFICIENCY IN WHEAT
WHEAT AGRONOMY
WHEAT BREEDING METHODS AND STRATEGIES
WHEAT INFORMATION SYSTEM
WHEAT PHENOTYPING TO SUPPORT WHEAT IMPROVEMENT