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A novelist was accused of using AI. Why the literary world is still grappling with guardrails
The recent cancelling of a horror novelist's book demonstrates the conundrum that literary professionals face as they comb through every pitch, query letter and manuscript lobbed their way: how do you separate the proverbial wheat from the AI-generated chaff, and what happens if you get it wrong?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/publishing-industry-ai-shy-girl-fallout-9.7155292?cmp=rss

CBC Calgary 2d ago

Nairolf Slednib 3d ago

Baking fluffy rustical wheat flour bread with roasted onions and mild pepperoni peppers and bacon 🥓🌶🌰😋👌

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#cooking #experimentalcooking #cuisine #wheat #flour #onions #pepperoni #bacon #foodporn #baking #fluffy #salt #food #nairolfslednib #florianbindels

Alexander J. Stein 4d ago

#FoodSafety: Bread made from gene-edited wheat showed much reduced levels of acrylamide, a common but toxic and probably carcinogenic compound. Conventional breeding would unlikely deliver similar improvements: www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/ultra-l... #Wheat #CRISPR #GeneEditing #PlantBreeding #Health

Ultra-Low Asparagine Wheat Dev...

Ultra-Low Asparagine Wheat Developed Using Precision Gene Editing | Rothamsted Research

Scientists at Rothamsted Research have successfully developed wheat with dramatically reduced levels of asparagine, without affecting yield, using gene editing techniques, offering a promising route to safer food production and improved regulatory compliance.Results from two years of field trials demonstrate that wheat produced using CRISPR genome editing can significantly lower concentrations of free asparagine—an amino acid that converts into acrylamide, a toxic and probably carcinogenic compound formed during everyday baking, frying, and toasting.

Scientific Frontline 4d ago

The most optimal durum #wheat varieties for balancing high productivity and environmental stability are those exhibiting vigorous initial growth and early maturation, contradicting the traditional assumption that prolonged leaf greenness at the end of a season ensures better crop outcomes.
#Agronomy #PlantPhenomics #Botany #ArtificialIntelligence #AgriculturalEngineering #AgriculturalScience #AI #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/04/arga04102601.html

Artificial intelligence and drones to select the most resilient wheat

The team analyzed 64 varieties of durum wheat grown under two different Mediterranean conditions

Jitendra 4d ago

Despite #unseasonal #rain, India's #wheat production will remain higher than previous year due relatively higher acreage 33.4 Mha against 32.53 Mha last yr. It is expected to over 119.4 mmt against the last year 117.9 mmt, said @icarindia DG Dr ML Jat.
India has harvested 40% of its total wheat, and the rest, which would start harvesting from mid-April, is in the Indo-Gangetic plains. However, these regions have experienced excess rainfall in the past 10 days.

Countess Hope Apr 5

#FotoVorschlag 'naturnah // close to nature'

Getreidefeld - naturnah mit Löwenmäulchen, Sauerampfer, Kornblumen, Kamille //

A grain field – left to grow naturally, with #snapdragons, #sorrel, #cornflowers and #chamomile

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#Flowers #Wheat #Wildflowers #Photography #BloomScrolling #FleurisTonFil #Florespondence #NaturePhotography #Camomile #Nature #WildflowerWednesday

mk30 Apr 3

sometimes it just fries my brain how colonialists can turn literally anything into racism. for example: the fact that wheat is the primary grain crop in britain.

"We are wheat-eaters. Other races, vastly superior to us in numbers, but differing widely in material and intellectual progress, are eaters of Indian corn, rice, millet, and other grains; but none of these grains have the food values, the concentrated health sustaining power of wheat, and it is on this account that the accumulated experience of civilized mankind has set wheat apart as the fit and proper food for the development of muscle and brains." - from an 1898 speech by william crookes, then president of the Scientific Society (UK)

the quote was found in the book "the agricultural dilemma: how not to feed the world" by glenn davis stone (it's a very nice book)

stone continues: "(Winston Churchill would later echo Crookes’ grain chauvinism, writing that “yellow men, brown men and black men” had not “learned to demand and become able to afford a diet superior to rice” (Belasco 2006, 34).)"

oh, and the solution is apparently chemistry (in order to make synthetic nitrogen that would improve soils and give better yields and feed the whites)!: "But Crookes saw a way out: “It is the chemist who must come to the rescue.” The key would be nitrogen, the fixation of which was a great discovery “awaiting the ingenuity of chemists”; otherwise, “the great Caucasian race will cease to be foremost in the world, and will be squeezed out of existence.”

...all this reminds me that i have to eventually get to the book "The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution" by marci r. baranski

#books #colonialism #racism #wheat #agriculture #history #food

JIPB Apr 2

🤝ATP binding is essential to multiple biological processes--including #plant #immunity.
💥Here, Kang et al. reveal that a conserved fungal Egh16-like effector disrupts ATP binding of #wheat MPK3, supressing host defense.
👀https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70241
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci #JIPB #Botany

JIPB Apr 1

✂️This comprehensive validation of CasY7 across 942 #transgenic #plants confirmed robust editing in #maize, #rice, and #wheat, establishing CasY7 as a high-efficiency addition to the #CRISPR toolkit.

🧬https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.70181
@WileyLifeSci
#PlantSci #CropSci #botany