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[1] [2] Triptolemus is credited with being the first to sow seed for cultivation [3] after being taught by Demeter and is credited for the use of oxen and the plough. [4] Xenophon claims that Peloponnesus was the first place Triptolemus shared Demeter's agricultural gift [ 5 ] while Pausanias claims the Rharium plane near Eleusis was the first ...
The Chinese word bigu compounds bi 辟 "ruler; monarch; avoid; ward off; keep away" and gu 穀 or 谷 "cereal; grain; millet".The bi 辟 meaning in bigu is a variant Chinese character for bi 避 "avoid; shun; evade; keep away" (e.g., bixie 辟邪 or 避邪 "ward off evil spirits; talisman; amulet").
World trade in wheat is greater than for all other crops combined. In 2021, world wheat production was 771 million tonnes (850 million short tons), making it the second most-produced cereal after maize (known as corn in North America and Australia; wheat is often called corn in countries including Britain). [4]
Alchemy was a series of practices that combined philosophical, magical, and chemical experimentation. One goal of European alchemists was to create what was known as the Philosopher’s Stone , a substance that when heated and combined with a non precious metal like copper or iron (known as the “base”) would turn into gold.
Many R-genes have been transferred to wheat from its wild relatives, and appear in such papers and catalogues, thus making them available for triticale breeding. The two mentioned databases are significant contributors to improving the genetic variability of the triticale gene pool through gene (or more specifically, allele) provision.
Wheat sheaves near King's Somborne, England arranged into a stook. Stooking maize in Kenya.. A stook /stʊk/, also referred to as a shock or stack, [1] is an arrangement of sheaves of cut grain-stalks placed so as to keep the grain-heads off the ground while still in the field and before collection for threshing.
Semolina is the name given to roughly milled durum wheat mainly used in making pasta [3] and sweet puddings. The term semolina is also used to designate coarse millings of other varieties of wheat, and sometimes other grains (such as rice or maize ) as well.
There is consequently very little written about the miner's efforts. [19] After two years, Sawyer made his final verdict public on January 7, 1884, his decision reaching 225 pages. [1] Sawyer concluded that the mining operations not only were harmful to farmers, but also to state-funded infrastructure and California citizens. [2]