According to data collected by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the food crop known as common wheat (triticum aestivum) is grown in 127 countries, producing 895 million ...
Wheat is the world’s most genetically complex staple crop, with the wheat genome nearly six times the size of the human genome – making it the most challenging of the world’s staple crops to sequence ...
A former AAFC wheat breeder in Swift Current, resigned from his job in January because he believed he could “no longer be ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A dozen or so farm workers perched on wooden stools carefully emasculate wheat spikes ...
Andrew Green, a Ph.D. candidate in Agronomy (Planting Breeding) at Kansas State University has been selected as the next spring wheat breeder at North Dakota State University (NDSU). Green will ...
Climate change and evolving growing conditions present new challenges for breeding. It is important to take local environmental conditions into account. An international team led by the IPK Leibniz ...
Ending world hunger and achieving food security is one of the pillars of sustainability, and the contribution of wheat towards this goal is undeniable. Wheat serves as a crucial staple food for ...
The University of Minnesota has been researching the effects of dough fermentation and wheat variety in creating bread that is easier to digest. Sourdough bread, like these loaves baked by Loni Larson ...
Scientists from Shandong Agricultural University have uncovered a hidden side of the Green Revolution genes that transformed global wheat production. Long known for reducing plant height, these genes ...
In 1892, A.C. Magruder initiated a soil fertility study to evaluate Oklahoma wheat production. In 1930, H.J. Harper established 10 separate fertilization treatments on these plots. The rest is history ...