Improving wheat production sustainability in north-west India through the use of biotechnology is the focus of a joint, three-day Indian-Australian workshop commencing today at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Conference Centre in Delhi. [...] In his opening remarks, the Australian High Commissioner to India, John McCarthy, said the workshop will form the basis of a joint ICAR-ACIAR collaborative five-year program on marker-assisted breeding in wheat in a range of applications to improve disease resistance, drought and temperature tolerance and quality of wheat.