{"id":152155,"date":"2026-05-29T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152155"},"modified":"2026-05-29T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:00:08","slug":"china-is-growing-giant-wheat-rye-hybrids-in-its-western-deserts-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152155","title":{"rendered":"China is growing giant wheat-rye hybrids in its western deserts. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists in China are growing towering hybrids of wheat and rye \u2013 taller even than some humans \u2013 in the deserts of its western Xinjiang region.<br \/>\nThe hybrids, known as triticale, can adapt more easily than wheat to challenging conditions and, in addition to providing food for humans, their stalks and leaves can be used for animal feed.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is tolerant of poor soil, cold, drought, salinity, and wind and sand,\u201d Kuang Feiting, the executive director of Xinjiang Maishengdao Biotechnology, the firm&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3355172\/china-growing-giant-wheat-rye-hybrids-its-western-deserts-heres-why?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists in China are growing towering hybrids of wheat and rye \u2013 taller even than some humans \u2013 in the deserts of its western&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}