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Super wheat to act as drought buster

Thursday, 01/05/2008

A new “super wheat” is currently in quarantine as scientists prepare to test it in Australia. The perennial, which has been engineered in Northern America, is water-efficient and only needs to be planted every few years. Dr Philip Larkin, from the CSIRO, says there’s no reason why it can’t work in Australia. “The answer to the question will depend on what we discover with this material,” he said. “We’re envisaging, and a preliminary theoretical study has suggested, that it will be most valuable to mixed farms, probably in eastern, southern, Western Australia, and probably used as both a graze and grain crop.”