New High-Yield Wheat Being Grown
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 7, 1972-3
at Weizinann Institute of Science
REHOVOT—A
new
high yield gte spiked plants, unlike other va- other for areas in which rainfall California bioenemist, Prof Dan
variety of wheat, developed by the rieties which usually have—in ad-
is the sole source of water—are iel E. Roshland, within the frame-
plant genetics department of the damn to the main spike—several i now being grown successfully on work of the traditional Wei/mann
Weizmann Institute of Science, is l small low-yield secondary ones.
t`11 0S. .
Shuval and ; Memorial Lectures in the Sciences--
experimental
being grown on an experimental With the latter eliminated, the
•.1111e to the
Prof. Koshland
a number of other Negev settle-
basis in the Rehovot area and is same number of spikes, per unit
Wein-nano Institute from All Souls
expected to be ready for large- area, will probably y - ield more
College. Oxford, w here too is st n end-
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scale cultivation within about two grain. ".
year as a s jading fellow .
The first of three lectures on in
years.
Pro -
"The Control of Biological
Among the qualities sought in
The new
cesses" was delivered at the Weiz-
variety of wheat, with the new variety—in addition to
more grains in every spike than ,
mann Institute's Wiz Auditorium
high yield—are disease resistance
by a distinguished University of
other varieties now under eulti. and high baking quality.
vation, is the byproduct of re-
for a iiietime 01 proud possession
Two drought-resistant varieties
search carried out by agronomist
OMEGA
Elhanan Jacobs and Dr. Dan Ats-
mon in an attempt to develop :
wheat suitable for cultivation in :
Israel and other semi-arid coon-
tries. This has long been one of '
the interests of the plant genetics
department, headed by Prof. Esra
Galun.
The grain in the new Weizmann
Institute wheat is produced by sin-
Daily—Hospital—Sympathy
, of wheat developed within the
framework of this same program
one for areas in which supple-
mentary irrigation is possible, the
The watch a man
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