A genus of grasses that includes wheat and wheat-like plants, commonly used as pasture and forage crops.
From Greek agros (field) + pyros (wheat). The genus name was coined by botanists to describe wild wheat relatives found in Mediterranean and Asian regions.
Agropyron grasses are evolutionary cousins of wheat and could help create more drought-resistant crops in the future, since they survive in harsh conditions where regular wheat would die.
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