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Credits and thanks

• Professor Keith Edwards, University of Bristol, for conceiving the project and finding a sponsor.
• Professor Graham Jellis, at HGCA, for coming up with the money and for interested support during the project.
• Dr John Lenton, formerly at IACR- Long Ashton, for on-going editorial help with the texts and intellectual rescue with the biology. John also contributed the specialist texts on Germination, The Crease and the Nucellar Projection, and Seed Dormancy and Pre-harvest Sprouting.
• Sophie Shepherd, now studying for a PhD at Reading University, for the photographs of whole wheat grains, during the Germination, Grain Growth and Grain Filling stages, and the pictures of pollen release during anthesis. These were taken during her time at IACR-Long Ashton.
• Dr Gary Barker, University of Bristol, our Webmaster, for turning the dreams into reality by constructing the WebPages, sizing all the images, and making the database run. And especially for the elegant solution to the problem of the self-referencing glossary and other magic tricks.
• Jill Parker for selecting and annotating the images, conceiving and writing the texts, and drawing the diagrams. Oh, yes, and preparing all the material for the grain microscopy and taking all the photographs, during her last year working at IACR- Long Ashton.
• The glasshouse and controlled environment support team at Long Ashton Research Station where we grew the plants and did the experiments.