Although it may sound exaggerated, civilization would not have advanced without the domestication of plants and animals. Since the domestication of wheat and other crops is so important to the development of civilization, its origins must be studied...

Common wheat (Triticum aestivum) is an annual cool season grass that is grown across a wide range of environments around the world. It has the broadest range of adaptation of all the cereals and more land is devoted to wheat than any other commercial...

T. aestivum T. aethiopicum T. araraticum T. boeoticum T. carthlicum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. ispahanicum T. karamyschevii T. macha T. militinae T. monococcum T. polonicum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum T. timopheevii T. turanicum...

Daily Chicago December Wheat Trend is higher. The pullback from the contract high of $9.61 [frac34] is just a correction. A 25% retracement of the last leg up from the mid-August low is at $8.88 3/4 and a 25% retracement of...

Ecology and Physiology of Yield Determination Edited by Emilio H Satorre, Gustavo A Slafer Published 1999. Hardback. 501 pages. Price: [pounds]149.00 (USA: The Haworth Press Inc) This book brings together the expertise of many different scientists from eleven different countries...

Wheat prices rose sharply Monday as investors anticipated another week of brisk U.S. export sales, which have been running well ahead of the average pace despite record-high prices.Other commodities fluctuated amid the competing signals of weaker-than-expected manufacturing data and the resultant optimism for lower interest...

Sodden wheat lies flat in fields across southern Kansas. Insurance companies are writing off acreage as total losses. Test weights for the few truckloads of grain straggling into area elevators are awful. And it is still sprinkling.The start of the 2007 Kansas wheat harvest will...