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Article: US ARS: Labs play key role in developing tomorrow's wheats.
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- May 12, 1999
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M2 PRESSWIRE-12 May 1999-US ARS: Labs play key role in developing tomorrow's wheats (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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When sixth-graders tour the Soft Wheat Quality Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service in Wooster, Ohio, food technologist Charles S. Gaines tells them he's working on wheat flour that may be used in their wedding cakes. That's because it takes 8 to 14 years to breed a new commercial wheat variety. ARS is the USDA's chief scientific agency.
Before growers receive a new wheat variety, ARS researchers at four wheat quality laboratories have thoroughly analyzed thousands of experimental breeding lines from ...