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Thirty or so years ago the experts - of which Keith Edwards was one - thought that wheat had little genetic diversity. More recently, wheat geneticists have discovered that wheat has more variation than they could have possibly imaged. How did this paradox happen and what are it's implications?

In this presentation Keith will explain how this paradox occurred, what it means for today’s wheat breeder and the problems that it might lead to in the not too distant future. If time permits, he will use the final few minutes of the talk to indicate what the Bristol group are doing to try and address the problems associated with wheat genetic variation.