Ancient Syrian grass rescued from Aleppo is resistant to pests devastating American farms

• This article was originally published by the Yale school of forestry

Inside a Kansas greenhouse, a buzzing horde of flies set about laying waste to 20,000 seedlings. But as researchers watched, there was one species of growth that remained untouched – an ancient Syrian grass known as Aegilops tauschii.

Now those Syrian Seeds, once stored in a vault outside of Aleppo, could end up saving US wheat from the menaces of climate change.

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