- Triticale: A Reappraisal by G. Varughese, W.H. Pfeiffer, and R. J. Pe a From a scientific curiosity to a viable crop in the course of a few decades is the message of two articles Triticale: A Successful Alternative Crop which appeared in CEREAL FOODS WORLD ( vol 41, Nos. 6&7) and are excerpted here. Only two developing countries -- South Africa and Brazil -- are among the major triticale ...www.worldbank.org/html/cgiar/newsletter/april97/8tritic.html