Genetics Not Enough to Increase Wheat Production

Here's an article you need to read in the next 10-12 days if you can. It may not be available through the link below after that. I will save it, and I may be able to email it to you, but it would be easier if you can read it using the link.

Here is the first paragraph from the article just to give you an intro to the subject. The article is provided by the Crop Science Society of America.

"The deep gene pool that has allowed wheat to achieve ever increasing gains in yield may be draining. Crop scientists estimate that 50% of the gain in wheat production over the past century has been due to breeding. According to a new study, however, that improvement has been slowing since the late 1980s, with little chance that future increases in yield can be met by breeding efforts alone."

Just more evidence to me that we will need new and innovative ways of providing nutrition in the future.

http://www.newswise.com/articles/genetics-not-enough-to-increase-wheat-production