An international team of researchers led by UMD scientists have sequenced the complete genome for einkorn wheat, the world’s first domesticated crop and traced its evolutionary history. The ...

Wheat just might be the most important plant in human history. Ancient peoples picked it wild when it was ripe in late summer. Some historians peg the first wheat cultivation to about 10,000-12,000 ...

Everybody hates wheat now. It’s maligned as a cause of several health problems. We’re told it makes us fat. It’s bad for your gut. It slows your mental processing down. The list goes on, much of it ...

Could that dusty jar of pennies in the kitchen drawer hold a small fortune? The answer for many casual collectors and curious finders alike lies in one humble yet historically rich coin: the Lincoln ...

Near-complete sequence of bread-wheat DNA accelerates breeding efforts. The data are a long time coming. As fate would have it, the crop that feeds 30% of the human population and provides 20% of its ...

Isaac Campbell was having a great start to his Monday, and not just because RAGBRAI’s revelry was brightening Carroll’s downtown. No, Campbell’s good mood was mostly due to bricks — the building kind.

Darren DeBoer, left, grinds wheat while wearing a heart-rate monitor as Kyler McPherson keeps time in Kris Schreiner’s eighth-grade Montana History class at Kalispell Middle School on Tuesday, Feb. 19 ...

Nebraska’s farmers have planted the fewest acres of wheat on record as three years of robust harvests and growing international competition force prices down. The state’s producers seeded 1.28 million ...