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Wheat

A cereal used in a large number of products, especially food. Wheat is contained in bread, cake, beer, pasta and even some fuels. Wheat is a major commodity and its contracts are traded on exchanges.

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They were able to thresh enough wheat to repay their debt of six hundred bushels and keep an additional three hundred of seed for the following year.

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I measured in this way," said Sancho; "going to help her to put a sack of wheat on the back of an ass, we came so close together that I could see she stood more than a good palm over me.

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If you had to sow your wheat twice, and three times, as I have done, you wouldn’t be so massyfully feeling toward the divils.

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Daddy and grandpa are busy in there cornering wheat.

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Whereas the kernels of the latter two are released from their hulls by threshing, those of ancient wheats remain enclosed in inedible hulls after threshing.

Wonderful wheat: why this ancient staple is still good for you. Learn which factors determine best uses, nutrition and flavor

This was blended at a 15% replacement level with bran milled from representative samples of one hard red and two hard white wheats.

Electronic nose discriminates between volatiles of refined, whole wheat bread

Soft, low-protein wheats are typically favored for making cakes, pastries, cookies, crackers and Oriental noodles.

Sifting through the fables and facts of designer whole wheat flours

Red and white wheats are the most common in the United States.

Properly stored wheat will last a long time

According to Emma Jackson, HGCA's British Cereals Export manager, delegates were shown that bread wheat grown in the UK was suited to making most types of bread and that soft wheat was very successful when used for low volume breads and for blending with stronger wheats.

British wheat rises to world bread taste test

Her CIMMYT colleagues, however, have developed what they call synthetic bread wheats, which demonstrate that genetic crop diversity can be restored or even amplified.

The ultimate crop insurance: a new treaty strives to save 10,000 years of plant breeding

The gene is normally associated with production of HMW glutenins found in wheats that posess good bread-making qualities.

Helping wheat make better bread. (Genetic Engineering)

eastern soft wheats have enough dough-mixing strength to make bread, while still making fine baked goods.