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Welcome to    Wheat: The big picture

On this website we describe the life cycle of WHEAT, from seed germination to harvest ripe with special emphasis on the development of the grain after fertilisation. There are supplementary sections on the development of the wheat apex and the embryo. We think that there is something here for everyone: farmers, millers, brewers, teachers, students, cereal biologists or anyone just interested in knowing a bit more about one of the world's most important staple grains. There are lots of pictures to look at and some are quite beautiful. Financial support from the Home Grown Cereal Authority and especially Professor Graham Jellis, has enabled us to gather together, for the web, information that has, until now, been spread about in text books, field guides and scientific papers. There are links to our work in the Functional Genomics Group at the School of Biological Sciences, Bristol University, which is funded via several UK government and EU sponsored research programmes instigated under the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's Investigating Genome Function initiative. This research project has developed modern molecular tools, which are now being used to understand the various stages of grain development. You can find further wheat-based research by searching the BBSRC OASIS database. We actively encourage you to download the images and texts for study or your own further use however, before you do so, we ask you please to read and accept the copyright statement. Please send comments and suggestions on the site to Dr Gary Barker at gary.barker@bristol.ac.uk