date:Nov 29, 2012
han any other commercial crop and is the worlds most important staple food.
Its improvement has vast implications for global food security, the U.S.D.A. said.
The study represents the most detailed examination to date of the DNA that makes up the wheat genome, a crop domesticated thousands of years ago, the U.S.D.A. added. The wheat genome is five times the size of the human genome, giving it a complexity that makes it difficult to study. The researchers used the whole genome shotgun sequencin