Imagine if three times as much grain could be obtained from the same amount of wheat plants as is currently possible, using the same amount of land, water and fertilizer. Well, that could soon be ...

An international research project, involving the University of Adelaide, discovered the gene responsible for a rare form of wheat that grows three ovaries per flower instead of one – which could help ...

Driven by both long-term natural evolution and human domestication, different cereal crops have evolved inflorescence architectures that share common features, most having a notably compact spike, ...