In a scenario of climate change and rapidly rising urban populations demanding processed foods, it is necessary to develop new wheat cultivars combining high yield potential, disease resistance, and stability for yield and processing quality, even under heat or drought stress conditions. Allelic variation for gluten proteins (glutenin subunits and gliadins) is a major determinant of differences in dough viscoelastic properties observed between cultivars of both bread wheat and durum wheat. Technical diffi culties in allelic identifi cation due to the complexity of the protein profi le produced by each cultivar and the use of different nomenclature systems in different laboratories has historically interfered with information exchange between research groups, a situation exacerbated by the vast number of possible profi les found in different cultivars due to the multi-allelic nature of the principal loci encoding gluten proteins ( Glu-1 , Glu-2, Glu-3 , Gli-1 and Gli-2 ). For the Glu-3 alleles, we have collaborated to unify criteria across laboratories and to