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Israeli Scientists Crack Wild Wheat Genome, Discovering Mutations Key to Early Human Farming

Israeli-led team finds that grains stay on the stalk in mutant domestic variants, enabling harvesting, while wild wheat scatters its seeds

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Jul 11, 2017 10:29 AM

After years of frustrating science with its genetic complexity, wild wheat has finally been sequenced for the first time. This...

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