Decoding of wheat genome will aid global food shortage
Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 18:28
in Mathematics & Economics
Wheat production world-wide is under threat from climate change and an increase in demand from a growing human population. Liverpool scientists, in collaboration with the University of Bristol and the John Innes Centre, have sequenced the entire wheat genome and will make the DNA data available to crop breeders to help them select key agricultural traits for breeding.