As one of the world’s largest and most versatile crops, wheat has been the subject of much research from around the globe. Wheat: Science and Trade compiles classic principles of existing research and expands them to include recent advancements in genetics and industry trade for the most comprehensive reference workto date. Wheat: Science and Trade is divided into four major sections covering all aspects of the wheat plant, crop, cultivar and industry. Section one offers a firm grounding in the development and domestication of wheat with an extensive overview of diseases and pathogens following in Section two. Section three focuses on genetic strategies including QTL detection and marker–assisted selection, genome organization and comparative genomics, and synthetic wheat as an emerging technology. Section four concludes the text with a discussion of changes in industry trade, quality assessment, andnew uses for wheat and modified wheat products. Written...