CURRENT AND PROSPECTIVE DIRECTIONS IN THE USE OF THE GRAIN CROPS TRITICALE

Triticale is a young crop that combines the main qualities of its ancestors - rye and wheat. This grain crop has a higher quality amino acid composition, which allows its use as raw material not only for special-purpose food products, but also for the feed industry. It is also less demanding of weather conditions and is resistant to various diseases, which allows increasing the grain harvest per hectare of crops. Breeding triticale varieties that combine high protein content with good biological quality is an important task for researchers. First of all, triticale is a grain crop, which allows expanding the range of foods and improving their nutritional value, since these products are in demand among consumers. Deficiency of protein and dietary fiber in the population's diet is still a pressing problem today. Triticale, in turn, can solve a number of problems associated with malnutrition, which makes research in this area promising and worthy of attention.