Farming -- the cultivation of olives, wheat, dates, barley, sheep and goats -- occupied most early Israelites.
The area is heavily agricultural, the chief crops being cotton, corn (maize), wheat, dates, sugarcane, millet, and onions.
The formation of Emmer wheat dates back to 0.5 MYA; judging from the dating for rearrangements in Nicotiana allopolyploids, this is a sufficient time period for considerable rearrangements in the TE fraction between the parental chromosome sets.
And finally, inspired by the date-nut cream-cheese sandwiches of my own childhood, I baked whole-wheat date bread (without any nuts, which some schools don't permit) and smeared it with cream cheese, studding the cheese with grapes for Dahlia and sliced black olives for myself.
In the first year of the study, spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L). cultivar Tybald and faba bean (V. faba L). cultivar Fuego were sown at the same time at the optimum planting date for spring wheat (see Table 1 for details).
Over the years, he has brought back collections from countries ranging from Turkey to Tibet, and next month he will wander the Guatemalan highlands looking for wheat types that date back to Juan Garrido's garden.
Nearly one-third of the land is under corn (maize); other crops include cotton, wheat, clover, dates, and onions.
As we drove south from the Feish Khabur minefield down wide, green valleys, past immense blockhouses in the wheat that date from British battles with the Kurds in the 1920s, or the rubble of villages destroyed by Saddam during the war with Iran, we were driven off the road by a truck carrying smuggled diesel to Turkey.
Measurements were taken during two consecutive growing seasons of winter wheat (harvest dates of August 2004 and 2005).
This paper proposes a method for analyzing time series of MODIS satellite data in order to estimate the inter-annual variability of winter wheat sowing dates.
