GLOBAL POPULATION IS GOING TO INCREASE TO MORE THAN NINE BILLION BY 2050. TO KEEP PACE WITH THE GROWING DEMANDS IN WHEAT PRODUCTION, WHICH ARE HINDERED BY BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESSES, WE WILL REQUIRE QUICK INTEGRATION OF NEW GENES AND ALLELES IN THE BREEDING PROGRAMS. WILD AND RELATED GERMPLASM OF BREAD WHEAT IS CONSIDERED A GOLDMINE OF USEFUL GENES FOR WHEAT IMPROVEMENT, HOWEVER, PRECISE GENE TRANSFER WITHOUT LINKAGE DRAG (THE INTEGRATION OF UNDESIRABLE OR DELETERIOUS GENES THAT NEGATIVELY INFLUENCE END-USE QUALITY AND GRAIN YIELD IN ADDITION TO BENEFICIAL GENES) FROM WILD AND RELATED SPECIES IN WHEAT IS HAMPERED DUE TO LACK OF GENETIC RECOMBINATION, EVOLUTIONARY CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENTS, AND LACK OF GENOMIC RESOURCES TO DETECT FINE TRANSLOCATIONS.HERE WE PROPOSE TO INTEGRATE RADIATION INDUCED FREQUENT CHROMOSOMAL BREAKS WITH GENOMIC AND CYTOLOGICAL TOOLS TO DEVELOP A ROBUST APPROACH FOR CHANNELIZING USEFUL GENES FROM THE RICH WHEAT GENE POOLS TO BREAD WHEAT CULTIVARS. RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING OFFERS A QUICK APPROACH TO CREATE DENSE MAPS OF THE ENTIRE ALIEN CHROMOSOMES. THE EXOTIC LIBRARIES CONTAINING OVERLAPPING ALIEN FRAGMENTS INDEXED WITH DIAGNOSTIC MOLECULAR MARKERS, KNOWN FRAGMENT SIZE AND POSITION OF TRANSLOCATIONS WILL REPRESENT A RESOURCE OF USEFUL GENETIC VARIATION RECOVERED FROM RELATED GRASSES WHICH ARE UNAVAILABLE IN CULTIVATED WHEAT VARIETIES. THIS WILL SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT PLATFORM FOR BREEDERS TO INCORPORATE NATURAL VARIATIONS IN THE BREEDING PROGRAMS WITH REDUCED OR NO LINKAGE DRAGS.