Explore: Grain Breeding

Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It is used to improve the quality of plant

thousands of years of selective breeding. Ancient grains are often marketed as being more nutritious than modern grains, though their health benefits over

Rice is a cereal grain and in its domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is

wheat with high grain iron and zinc content has been developed through gamma radiation breeding, and through conventional selection breeding. International

A cereal is a grass cultivated for its edible grain. Cereals are the world's largest crops, and are therefore staple foods. They include rice, wheat,

annual tillage is one of the main motivations for developing perennial grain crops. Many sunflower species can be artificially hybridized but one group

corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. The leafy stalk of the plant gives rise to male inflorescences or tassels

Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular

intensive breeding, especially compared to the highly important common bread wheat. Khorasan wheat is used similarly as modern wheat. Its grains can be consumed

orchards; they also raid sorghum and maize crops to feed on unripe milky grain. Breeding occurs in all months except March and April though usually August–January