common wheat

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Noun1.common wheat - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important graincommon wheat - widely cultivated in temperate regions in many varieties for its commercially important grain
wheat, wheat berry - grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
wheat - annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
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To learn about the evolution and cultivation of today's bread wheat, the geneticists also linked the development of wheat to geographic and geopolitical events in human history.
Plant material and growth condition: Eight bread wheat genotypes as parentsand their 28 F1 hybrids listed in Table 1 were grownin a completely randomized design (CRD) with four replicates at different water regimes (Normal irrigation site (Nor.): 85% of FC i.e.
Standard bread wheat with 12 percent protein for September delivery in Hamburg was offered unchanged at 3 euros over Paris December.
Mariana Kukusheva, Chair of the National Branch Union of Bakers and Confectioners: Bulgaria's bread wheat harvest is 2.5 million tonnes.
Mapping a comprehensive wheat genome was an "immense challenge" that took 13 years, because bread wheat contains five times more genes than a human, said the report in the journal Science.
In Poland and in many other countries, those are, for example, elite wheat, prime-quality wheat, bread wheat, and forage wheat [22, 23].
Alex Waugh, of the National Association of British and Irish Flour Millers, said UK bread wheat prices are up 20 per cent year on year, mainly "because of the decline in value of the pound".
Keywords: Durum and Bread wheat varieties; Water uptake; Soaking; Peleg's model; Activation energy
Inside each was a carefully dried and pressed seed pod: a sweet clover from Egypt, a wild wheat found only in northern Syria, an ancient variety of bread wheat. He had thousands of these folders stacked neatly in a windowless office, a precious herbarium, containing seeds foraged from across the hot, arid and increasingly inhospitable region known as the Fertile Crescent, the birthplace of farming.
Morris, though, has a soft spot for durum, which, despite its rock-hard kernels, is better adapted to hot, arid growing regions than the more commonly grown bread wheat varieties.
Twenty spring bread wheat genotypes (G) from eleven research centers in Pakistan were included in national uniform wheat yield trial (NUWYT) conducted at the Agriculture Research Farm of The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, in 2010-2011.