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Scientists knew which gene they had to knock out to make wheat rust-resistant.
In order to make wheat safe for people with Coeliac disease, scientists would have to turn off 45 genes.
Because you're not you're still cutting down rainforests to make wheat to feed and corn to feed the tilapia.
"Wild relatives are one way to try to make wheat, or whatever major species it is, more resilient or use fewer resources," sayes Mayes, who is also theme director for Biotechnology, Breeding and Seed Systems at the new centre.
The rise of roller milling and bread factories also put pressure on plant breeders to make wheat even more amenable to the new dominant technologies; whiteness, hardness and uniformity took precedence over flavor, nutrition and novelty.
Scientists there have created a way to make wheat release a pheromone that mimics the pheromone of a frightened aphid (a type of pest), which then signals other aphids to flee.
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The chemical properties of flour and dough also make wheat versatile.
In order to make wild wheat sampling more representative, we studied wild wheat populations from different geographical regions.
By 1300, however, catastrophe hit: Because bogs, once drained, contract, the sea began to flood in, making wheat unsustainable.
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