b'Challenges are plentiful, as they have always been. Certainly, the more erratic weather extremes will be an important issue, cultivars need possibly more resilience and buffering capacity than before. Heat stress is very likely to increase. Also, resource efficiencyparticularly nutrient efficiency, such as nitrogen and phosphorous efficiencywill gain more relevance. And wheat production is expanding into non-traditional areas, such as sub-Saharan Africawhich means production systems need to be established for these regions.Creating a new generation of wheat that is tolerant to heat stress, drought stress, excess moisture and a constantly-evolving army of pests will require ongoing efforts to collaborate glob-allywhich in many ways is already happening. University of Saskatchewan researchersled by wheat breeder Curtis Pozniak who helmed the events Canadian organizing committeeplayed a key role in mapping the wheat genome as part of an international consortium.The bread wheat genome is five times bigger than the human genomeits a beast. The effort required to undertake cutting edge research like wheat genome sequencing is massive, said Richard Cuthbert, wheat breeder at the Agriculture and Agri- Hermann Brstmayr, international organizing committee Food CanadaSwift Current Research & Development Centre.chair, IWC. There are over 110,000 genes in bread wheat. Employing new technologies like gene editing will depend on how we can dissect complex traits to identify the genes that underlie them and how those genes work together. Were standing on the cliff of the next frontier in wheat. Now that we know what the genes are, we need to know how they work and interact with each other.Also during the event, Genome Canada announced an invest-ment of $11.2 million to go toward some exciting new research spearheaded by Pozniak and fellow wheat researcher Sylvie Cloutier of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.Known as 4D Wheat: Diversity, Domestication, Discovery and Delivery, this research will use wild-wheat relatives and elite germplasm along with industry-leading genomic techniques to better understand wheats genetic potential. The study will also examine the economics and policies of using wild-wheat germ-plasm sources and germplasm from international sources.Pozniak and Cloutiers work will be based out of the Crop Development Centre at the University of Saskatchewan and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canadas Ottawa Research & Development Centre, respectively.SWWHERETo download presentations from the 1st International Wheat Congress,ON THETim Searchinger, senior fellow at the World Resources Institute.WEB visit 2019iwc.ca126/ SEEDWORLD.COMDECEMBER 2019'