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the lab-born grandchild of wheat and rye, engineered to thrive where nothing else will.
name originLatin triticum (wheat) plus secale (rye), fused
first crossCreated in Scottish and Swedish labs, 1870s
the catchEarly hybrids were sterile, useless until fixed
toughnessThrives in poor, acidic, drought-stricken soils
livestock starMostly fed to animals, not humans