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GIFS researcher supports international team effort to sequence earliest domesticated wheat genome

A global team of scientists is looking to wheat’s past to help it grow into the future.

More than two dozen scientists have contributed to a project that that has sequenced and characterized genomes of wild and domesticated einkorn, the world’s first domesticated wheat species.

Dr. Raju Datla (PhD), program lead, resilient agriculture, at the Global Institute for Food Security at the University of Saskatchewan is one of the contributors to the initiative, providing molecular genetics and genomics expertise to support the analysis.

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