date:Aug 20, 2018
e years of work that went into decoding the wheat genome are just the beginning. These results facilitate further collaboration between scientists, breeders and farmers to locate and identify genes to improve wheat yield in a sustainable and responsible way, to meet the needs of a growing population.
Ricardo Ramirez-Gonzalez, a Scientific Programmer at the John Innes Centre adds: The genome is really a tool that allows us to address the challenges around food security and environmental change.