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New tricks for old wheat

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The ancient genome of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian emmer wheat sheds light on the domestication and dispersal history of emmer wheat as well as the unique diversity that the historical species contained.

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  1. South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    James Breen

  2. Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    James Breen

  3. University of Adelaide Bioinformatics Hub, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    James Breen

  4. Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Gatersleben, Germany

    M. Timothy Rabanus-Wallace

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Breen, J., Rabanus-Wallace, M.T. New tricks for old wheat. Nat. Plants 5, 1108–1109 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-019-0528-3

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