Fertile CrescentWild emmer’s centromeres were reorganised as wheat’s genomes merged.
Wheat’s September price was $246.9 a tonne, up 23.6% in 3 months.
A near-complete assembly of wild emmer, ancestor of durum and bread wheat, shows how its centromeres changed during polyploid evolution.
Breeders can now locate wild emmer’s drought and disease traits on a near-complete map.
How each outlet framed it
- Nature
- centers the reference list on wheat domestication and D-genome evolution, pointing to centromere chromatin research as the thread
Sources: Nature