Bread wheat and Einkorn Wheat (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

Bread wheat and Einkorn Wheat

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Bread wheat at left has been bred over thousands of years to have large grain size, and be easy to harvest, but it has lost much of the resilience still maintained in the wild, ancient Einkorn wheat seen on the right.

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Kimbra Cutlip/ UMD

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