Scientists have successfully mapped the genome sequence of Aegilops mutica, a wild relative of wheat, shedding light on its genetic diversity and potential use in breeding programs.

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 ...

Wild emmer wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, (2n = 4x = 28, AABB), is the direct wild ancestor of both durum and bread wheat, providing novel natural variation for modern wheat improvement. Researchers ...

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MURDOCH, AUSTRALIA —An international team of scientists from Australia and China announced the first chromosome-scale genome of a wild barley species, describing the breakthrough as a significant ...

Wheat futures have dropped sharply, driven by escalating trade tensions following US President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China.

The payments support low-input farming and an agroforestry scheme, including 2,000 hybrid willow trees in strips across his Wildfarmed wheat field, which will also be undersown with wild ...