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Significant efforts in plant breeding are made to develop lysine-rich wheat varieties, without success, as of 2017. [93] Supplementation with proteins from other food sources (mainly legumes ) is commonly used to compensate for this deficiency, [ 94 ] since the limitation of a single essential amino acid causes the others to break down and ...
The plants listed may be ornamental, medicinal, and/or edible. Several of them bear edible fruit. Plants are selectively bred for phenotypic traits (such as flower colour) and other hereditary traits. When developing a new variety, a plant breeder might value such characteristics as appearance, disease resistance, and hardiness.
Modern wheat varieties have been selected for short stems, the result of RHt dwarfing genes [14] that reduce the plant's sensitivity to gibberellic acid, a plant hormone that lengthens cells. RHt genes were introduced to modern wheat varieties in the 1960s by Norman Borlaug from Norin 10 cultivars of wheat grown in Japan .
The genetic approach to wheat taxonomy (see below) takes the genome composition as defining each species. [17] As there are five known combinations in Triticum this translates into five super species: A m T. monococcum; A u T. urartu; BA u T. turgidum; GA m T. timopheevii; BA u D, T. aestivum; For a larger list of genome names, see Triticeae ...
List of plants known as nettle; List of plants known as oil palm; List of plants known as orange; List of plants known as rush; List of plants known as sea lettuce; List of plants known as sour cherry; List of plants known as tamarind; List of plants known as violet; Woodbine; List of wort plants; List of Māori plant common names. List of ...
This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names , in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.
Plant breeders continue to use heritage wheat varieties in order to develop new varieties. Farmers are growing heritage wheat varieties as part of the 100 Mile Diet, 'eat local' and Slow Food movements. 'Red Fife' wheat is the first variety preserved heritage wheat to celebrate terroir, which is the interaction of the genetics of the variety ...