BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Durum, Claviceps Purpurea
14 Mar 2016
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Grasses you can eat corn, wheat, rice, pearl millet, rye, barley, sorghum grasses (poaceae family) are the most widely cultivated food plants sugar cane most highly cultivated plant domesticated plants contains valuable traits for humans. Wild grass grains shatter easily for seed dispersal; domesticated grains don"t shatter to permit harvesting for all plants, foragers looked for larger seeds and fruit. Wheat is susceptible to fungal diseases caused by puccinia species durum wheat (t. durum) is grown in northern us, canada and europe for semolina flour used in pasta. 1930, filippo tommaso marinetti declared pasta should be abolished from italian cuisine non-refined wheat flour is nutrient and vitamin rich. Wheat is high in gluten, triggers celiac disease in allergen sensitive individuals. Assyrians were first to grow barley and sumerians used barley to brew beer barley was a staple food for roman gladiators, also known as hordearii (barley eaters)
