**8. Conclusions**

As it is an urgent call for upgrading wheat production under increasing potentiality of drought events, wheat breeders of Bangladesh need to emphasize on integrating more breeding techniques to make drought tolerant varieties. Majority of the breeding approaches here are concentrating on conventional techniques. So, it is high time to combine the conventional breeding methods with the modern techniques to develop wheat genotypes for the next generation. New advanced screening, hybridization and selection techniques shall need to be incorporated with conventional techniques. To maximize the breeding efficiency for drought tolerance in wheat, advanced precision phenotyping accompanied by genetic and molecular approaches should be integrated in breeding programs.
