"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
"songbird" wrote in message
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Farm1 wrote:
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Indeed biology is wondeful. It can still manage to produce
surprises by increases in yield of 30% but yet still manage to be
ignored by the mainstream press and provide so few hits on google.

much of the gain seemed to come from the short-
stalk breeding efforts (reduce stem length allows
the head/seeds to increase and the plant doesn't
fall over).

Do you have a cite about stem length? I haven't seen any reference
to stem length for the superwheat trial.

I suspect that is a historical reference,

Apropos of nothing that I wrote if that is the case......

a number of characteristics needed
to be found and selected to breed modern wheat from its forebears. IIRC
another was a mutation that allowed the heads to hold their seed when ripe
instead of spraying it all over, you cannot harvest much if the heads are
empty and the seed is on the ground.

Indeed. But none of that relates to the trial results for the superwheat.