World Nourishment at Risk of Being Diminished (IMAGE)

University of Haifa

World Nourishment at Risk of Being Diminished

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Wheats and barleys are the staple food for humans and animal feed around the world, and their wild progenitors have undergone genetic changes over the last 28 years that imply a risk for crop improvement and food production, reveals a new study. "The earliness in flowering time and genetic changes that are taking place in these important progenitor wild cereals, most likely due to global warming, can negatively affect the wild progenitors. These changes could thereby indirectly deteriorate food production," says professor Eviatar Nevo of the Insitute of Evolution at the University of Haifa who directed the study.

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