In her own research on drought-resistant wheat, plant geneticist Tamar Krugman, the curator of the Wild Cereal Gene Bank, is currently using the genes of wild wheat to breed a drought-resistant ...

High-quality reference genomes of einkorn wheat, the world’s first domesticated crop, have now been sequenced. The contiguous wheat genome assemblies include gap-free centromeres (parts of the ...

Wild Emmer wheat is the original form of nearly all the domesticated wheat in the world, including durum (pasta) and bread wheat. Wild emmer is too low-yielding to be of use to farmers today, but ...

Building on the Middle East’s reputation as one of the historical birthplaces of cereal crop domestication, a KAUST-led team has compiled the first complete genome map of an ancient grain known ...

This evidence presented in the journal Nature (August 5, 2004), pushes back the date for the processing of close wild relatives of domesticated wheat and barley, a key step in cultural development ...

The project aims to develop a niche industry around growing “first grains,” which Foulke described as the earliest domesticated cereal crops, among them Emmer wheat, spelt, barely and einkorn.

Wild and domesticated ears of wheat shatter at maturity in distinctive ways, so microscopic study can distinguish the two forms. No signs of domesticated wheat appeared at the oldest Near Eastern ...

COVER STORY Professors Jorge Dubcovsky and Jan Dvorak of the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences contributed an article on wheat for Science magazine’s June 29 package on plant domestication. The ...

In the current study, wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides), the progenitor of domesticated wheat, was tested for (1) genetic diversity in grain nutrient concentrations, (2) ...