How To Climate-Proof Ethiopian Breadbasket? Combine Genomics And Farmer Knowledge

How To Climate-Proof Ethiopian Breadbasket? Combine Genomics And Farmer Knowledge

Eurasia Review

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**Diverse wheat matters **

Ethiopia is one of Africa’s major wheat producing countries. But it might surprise you to learn that conventional bread wheat (Triticum aestivum, the most common species produced worldwide) only entered the country in the 1940s.

For the previous 5000 years, Ethiopian agriculture had counted on...

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