 Hello, I am Fatima Hankarar. I was a PhD student from Morocco. My country's agriculture is constrained by the occurrence of pests, diseases and drought due to the climate change. The staple crop like wheat is the most affected. The best way to tackle this problem is to develop a resistance cultivar of wheat for these stresses. The BSF funded project gave an opportunity to do PhD degree research in this direction. During my PhD research I did characterization of Moroccan wheat varieties and land races and I applied the marker assisted selection to incorporate resistant gene QTL to desired, adapted the Moroccan cultivar from different owners. I call open government and other donor agencies to support our effort to conserve, characterize and utilize plant genetic research and to develop climate resilient crop varieties.