The 10,000-Year Success Story of Wheat!
Abstract
<jats:p>Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops in the world as it is used in the production of a diverse range of traditional and modern processed foods. The ancient varieties einkorn, emmer, and spelt not only played an important role as a source of food but became the ancestors of the modern varieties currently grown worldwide. Hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and tetraploid wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) now account for around 95% and 5% of the world production, respectively. The success of this cereal is inextricably associated with the capacity of its grain proteins, the gluten, to form a viscoelastic dough that allows the transformation of wheat flour into a wide variety of staple forms of food in the human diet. This review aims to give a holistic view of the temporal and proteogenomic evolution of wheat from its domestication to the massively produced high-yield crop of our day.</jats:p>
Journal
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- Foods
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Foods 10 (9), 2124-, 2021-09-08
MDPI AG
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1360580236941811584
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- ISSN
- 23048158
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- Data Source
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- Crossref