Climate change is already having profound consequences on people’s lives and life diversity of our planet, determining the request of an increase crop genetic diversity to adapt agriculture to future. In this context, CerealMed project proposed the valorization and rediscovery of landraces and domesticated relatives of tetraploid wheat for cultivation in specific farming systems. To rich one the aims proposed, the CerealMed collection composed by 276 cultivated lines, 30 landraces and 8 checks was cultivated in multi-environment trials across the Mediterranean region (Italy, Egypt, Morocco, and Turkey) and evaluated for adaptation to environmental conditions and quality traits under conservative agriculture (CA) management. The quality traits analyzed were protein content, fibre content, resistant starch, yellow index, iron, and zinc content. High variability was detected across the environment for some traits, such as protein content (from 9.55% to 14.43%) or humidity (from 8.37% to 10.80%), while some other resulted more stable, such as yellow index (15.4).

Data are actually processing for GWAS analysis to identify relevant quality loci and assess their stability in the different environments and crop management.