Baking Business: Research reveals how bread helped transform the ancient world

A major study co-authored by University of Manitoba Plant Science researcher Dr Harmeet Chawla is helping to reveal the evolution and origin of bread.

Members of the International Open Wild Wheat Consortium (OWWC) collaborated to analyse approximately 80,000varieties of early bread wheat to map the genome of their original wild grass ancestor.

Dr Chawla said the findings would help provide a better understanding of how modern-day bread wheat emerged and adapted to growing conditions around the world.

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