Awns are the bristly parts at the top of wheat, barley and many wild grasses found both in urban and rural areas, and they stick like glue to fur.When these grasses are in high season (around summer ...

Native grasses boost cereal crops. SA Country Hour / By Clint Jasper. Posted ...

NSW farmer Colin Seis is a pioneer of farming with native grasses. Since 1993 native perennial grass species have been grown right along side his cereal crops in Gulgong, and he says they've ...

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and wheat (Triticum monococcum L. and Triticum turgidum L.) were among the principal ‘founder crops’ of southwest Asian agriculture1. Two issues that were central ...

The Flinders Ranges in South Australia, where Aborigines used native grasses for cereal grain. Flickr/kabl1992 A new production system using perennial grasses.

Scientists are interested in understanding genetic control of grass inflorescence architecture because seeds of cereal grasses (e.g. rice, wheat, maize) provide most of the world's food. Grass ...

The first manufactured breakfast cereal, it was developed in 1863 by a doctor and health reformer named James Caleb Jackson. Jackson believed, as many did at the time, that sicknesses were based ...