
The Food Innovators
The Food Programme
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Introduction
Wild Goat Grass is an ancestor of wheat. The plant provides the world today with most of its calories. A third of the chromosomes in modern wheat come from this relative. Around about a hundred thousand years ago, two crossed together and formed the first primitive wheat.
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