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Quinoa is an allotetraploid plant, containing two full sets of chromosomes from two different species which hybridised with each other at one time. According to a 1979 study, its presumed ancestor is either Chenopodium berlandieri , from North America, or the Andean species Ch. hircinum , although more recent studies, in 2011, even suggest Old ...
Quinoa, a common pseudocereal. A pseudocereal or pseudograin is one of any non-grasses that are used in much the same way as cereals (true cereals are grasses).Pseudocereals can be further distinguished from other non-cereal staple crops (such as potatoes) by their being processed like a cereal: their seed can be ground into flour and otherwise used as a cereal.
Those preferring a tropical climate, such as millet and sorghum, are called warm-season cereals. [ 25 ] [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Cool-season cereals, especially rye, followed by barley, are hardy; they grow best in fairly cool weather, and stop growing, depending on variety, when the temperature goes above around 30 °C or 85 °F.
Chenopodium album is a fast-growing annual plant in the flowering plant family Amaranthaceae.Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. ...
Sequencing of the teff genome improved breeding, [32] and an ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS)-mutagenized population was then used to breed the first semi-dwarf lodging-tolerant teff line, called kegne. [33] In 2015, researchers tested 28 new teff varieties and identified three promising lines that generated yields of up to 4.7 tonnes per ha. [34]
A tiny town called Seneca in the eastern part of the state is Oregon's coldest, with an annual average low of 25 degrees. It's also home to the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state, -54 ...
Both Echinochloa frumentacea and E. esculenta are called Japanese millet. This millet is widely grown as a cereal in India, Pakistan, and Nepal. Its wild ancestor is the tropical grass Echinochloa colona, [3] but the exact date or region of domestication is uncertain. It is cultivated on marginal lands where rice and other crops will not grow ...
Various food grains at a market in India. A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption. [1] A grain crop is a grain-producing plant.