Comments on: Ancient “Weed” Could Save Middle East Wheat https://www.greenprophet.com/2013/07/ancient-weed-could-save-middle-east-wheat/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:29:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Green https://www.greenprophet.com/2013/07/ancient-weed-could-save-middle-east-wheat/#comment-131436 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 03:29:22 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=96571#comment-131436 The task now is to do a wide search for strains of wheat which already have the Sr33 gene, if any do, and cross that with a wide number of different varieties, including einkorn and spelt, and then further crossbreed them 3 or 4 more times until there is a very wide diversity amongst wheat varieties.

]]> By: Ned Hamson https://www.greenprophet.com/2013/07/ancient-weed-could-save-middle-east-wheat/#comment-131368 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:35:52 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=96571#comment-131368 Good news and bad news. That so much of the world’s wheat is subject to attack from the same fungus is bad news and evidence that industrialized wheat farming makes the world more vulnerable to massive crop failures because there is too little diversity of grains and too much grain is planted in mega-fields. Nature rewards diversity by leaving it alone and attacks what seems to be over-population of a single species of anything.

The good news is maybe someone will re-learn the value of diversity from this rather than continue to think humans can out smart the natural system or delude ourselves that we are not part of the system.

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