The only oil that is derived from a gluten containing source; wheat germ oil is a fatty acid found in very small quantities within the small
embryo of the wheat plant.
Wheat germ is basically the best
part of wheat plant; it's what will nourish a new wheat plant yet to grow.
«New tools will drive greater understanding of wheat genes: Vast genetic resource will aid
development of wheat plants with improved traits.»
The resource, a collection of wheat seeds with more than 10 million sequenced and carefully catalogued genetic mutations, is freely available to wheat breeders and researchers, and is already aiding in the development
of wheat plants with improved traits.
Farmers in Russia will change the
time of wheat planting [for example], and may switch to a different crop if the hot summer of today becomes the norm of the future.»
To drastically alter the
structure of the wheat plant — such as create a bigger ear — CIMMYT researchers spent almost 20 years using standard breeding techniques to enhance traits such as fertility, branching, and robustness in varieties ranging from Polonicum wheat to wild goat grass.
To find out if how the nitrogen is delivered makes a difference, Arnold Bloom, a crop physiologist at the University of California, Davis, and his team monitored the
growth of wheat plants raised in high levels of carbon dioxide.
Wheat breeders can now bring a small tissue
sample of a wheat plant into a lab and test whether it has the preharvest sprouting resistance gene rather than finding out once the crop grows.
Bulgur is the groat, or berry,
of the wheat plant, most of the timeRead more