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Neat News 2017-190 (added 2017-07-09)

Domestication of Wheat

wheat.jpg
Public Domain by National Plant Germplasm System (USDA/ARS)

By genetic sequencing the changes in wheat have been detected that occurred in its domestication about 10,000 years ago in the so-called Fertile Crescent. In particular, the genes have been isolated that make spikes to shatter in wild wheat, but to remain intact in domesticated wheat.

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