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25.11.2006 |

Wheat takes a walk on the wild side

Scientists have found a way to boost wheat's nutrient content by reintroducing a gene that was 'lost' over the years as the wild plant was domesticated. [...] The wheat varieties bred by the scientists are not genetically modified, which could help them become accepted commercially, they say. "We didn't do it by genetic modification. The normal wheat crosses perfectly well with the wild wheat. So we just crossed it after normal breeding," Dubcovsky says.

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