(MENAFN- Jordan Times) The domestication of wheat and barley in the Fertile Crescent marked a pivotal turning point in human history. This region, encompassing parts of modern-day Iraq, Iran ...

Archaeobotanists at UCL helped Mott and a team of collaborators choose a handful of well-preserved husks from the museum’s collection of ancient emmer wheat, a variety native to the Near East and one ...

Bread wheat is a hexaploid species with three subgenomes (2n = 6x = 42, AABBDD) that has undergone two separate allopolyploidization and domestication events. Due to the bottleneck effects ...

Comparison of grains from weedy and domesticated wheat species. Samples originate from the herbarium of the Federal Ex situ Gene Bank at the IPK. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

“While we have gained a lot of knowledge about the significance of cereal grains like wheat, rice and corn historically, we now know that more than 2,000 economically important plants were ...

The three staple crops dominating modern diets — corn, rice and wheat — are familiar to ... of nutrition in the Southern ...