Scientists are excited by the presence of "beneficial mutations" in wild relatives of wheat Wild relatives of food crops, such as wheat, host an abundant array of genetic material to help the ...

Increasingly, wheat’s wild relatives are critical to unlocking this complexity. Akhunov recently led an international study 2 that sequenced nearly 1,000 wheat lines from distinct geographic ...

More than 20 rice, wheat and yam plants have been listed as threatened on the latest version of the IUCN's Red list. The wild plants are being squeezed out by intensive farming, deforestation and ...

Discover how Texas wheat research is advancing through innovative breeding techniques, partnerships with the Wheat Genetics ...