Several Kansas State University researchers were essential in helping scientists assemble a draft of a genetic blueprint of bread wheat, also known as common wheat. The food plant is grown on more than 531 million acres around the world and produces nearly 700 million tons of food each year.
The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, which also includes faculty at Kansas State University, recently published a chromosome-based draft sequence of wheat’s genetic code, which is called a genome. “A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat genome” is one of four papers about the wheat genome that appear ...
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