How Humans Transformed Wild Wheat into its Modern Counterpart (4 of 10) (IMAGE)

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How Humans Transformed Wild Wheat into its Modern Counterpart (4 of 10)

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Wild emmer wheat growing in Israel. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 7, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Avni at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "Wild emmer genome architecture and diversity elucidate wheat evolution and domestication."

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Zvi Peleg

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