Showing posts with label Hybrid wheat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hybrid wheat. Show all posts

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Hybrid wheat time has come

There’s growing interest in hybrid wheat and Dr. Amir Ibrahim, a Texas A&M AgriLife Research wheat breeder in College Station, believes the time is right to make it available.
Ibrahim has been working toward the development of hybrid wheat varieties since 2013, but wheat breeders first began looking at hybridization in wheat more than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, he said.