Attention Quote by M. S. Swaminathan

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to…

— Norman Borlaug

“Such enormous strides in yield have required drastic changes in genetic code, including reducing the proud “amber waves of grain” of yesteryear to the…

— William Davis

“Modern wheat, despite all the genetic alterations to modify hundreds, if not thousands, of its genetically determined characteristics, made its way to the worldwide…

— William Davis

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

“How this peculiar grass, native to Central America and unknown to the Old World before 1492, came to colonize so much of our land…

— Michael Pollan

“Check the labels for wheat in all its various forms, some of which are obvious and others that are not so obvious, with names…

— William Davis

“In addition to the potential to cause health problems, lectins can also stimulate weight gain. The reason that wheat became the grain of choice…

— Steven R. Gundry

“Worldwide, wheat covers about 2.25 million square kilometres of the globe’s surface, almost ten times the size of Britain. How did this grass turn…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The type of wheat that we currently consume is called dwarf wheat, named for its short stature relative to other varietals of wheat. Despite…

— Akil Palanisamy

The thing that has not had enough attention is really thinking about how to use modern breeding techniques to really look at the germplasm…

— Sandra E. Peterson

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.

— Michael Pollan

“Bulgur, kamut, barley, triticale, and rye share genetic heritage with wheat and therefore have at least some of the potential effects of wheat and…

— William Davis