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Researchers go head to head to tackle crown rot
www.theland.com.au
[Land] - A combination of technologies is being applied to rapidly move genes (from multiple sources) into bread wheat, including: 'speed breeding', (aimed at reducing the time taken from sowing to harvest to 12 weeks); high-throughput seedling and nursery
Google News: Transcriptome-scale homoeolog-specific transcript assemblies of bread wheat
[7thSpace Interactive (press release)] - Bread wheat is one of the world's most important food crops and considerable efforts have been made to develop genomic resources for this species. This includes an on-going project by the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium to assemble
Low wheat specific weights this season
www.farmersguardian.com
[Farmers Guardian] - The results indicate that 26 per cent of the 4,032 nabim group 1 and 2 samples received met a medium quality bread wheat specification (74kg/hl specific weight, 180 HFN, per cent protein). However, only 4 per cent of group 1 samples met full bread
Google News: Popular baker finds low volume more to his liking
[Arizona Daily Star] - Guerra is a big believer in community involvement and is baking test batches of bread using White Sonora soft bread wheat for a project spearheaded by Native Seeds/SEARCH. The grant-funded project aims to revive heritage grains in Southern Arizona.
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