“…Studies of breeding progress in durum in Canada (Clarke et al, 2010; McCaig & Clarke, 1995), Italy (De Vita et al, 2007; Pecetti & Annicchiarico, 1998), Mexico (Waddington et al, 2009), Spain and Italy (Isidro et al, 2011) and ICARDA (Bassi & Nachit, 2019) have indicated steady improvements in yield potential of varieties over the years. There have also been several studies of progress in breeding for quality of durum wheat as quality has become a focus more recently in many breeding programs worldwide (Clarke et al, 2010; Malalgoda et al, 2019; Subira et al, 2014; Taghouti et al, 2017). In Australia, there are reports of studies of breeding progress in yield in bread wheat (Flohr et al, 2018; Perry & D'Antuono, 1989; Sadras & Lawson, 2011) and one study of progress in breeding for quality (Riaz, 2020) but, to date, there have been no reports of evaluation of the progress in breeding durum wheat in Australia.…”