November 26, 2006
Scientists Boost Nutrients in Wheat
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Scientists identified a gene in wild wheat that raises the grain's protein, zinc, and iron content, an achievement that could help bring more nutritious food to millions of people worldwide. The gene became nonfunctional for unknown reasons during humankind's domestication of wheat, and the researchers used conventional breeding methods to bring it into cultivated wheat varieties; they said the process does not change how wheat tastes.
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