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 ...

"In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug's complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting ...

(NEXSTAR) — The U.S. could move to ditch the penny but that doesn’t mean you should start throwing away your one-cent pieces — especially if they contain a certain grain on them. The penny has ...

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 ...