Scientists at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, while attempting to make a wheat with an enhanced starch profile, came up with a line of genetically modified wheat that yields 30 percent more than check varieties in greenhouse trials.
 ”With this technology we see more vigorous wheat with increased vegetative growth, larger seed heads and larger seed,” Bruce Lee, director of CSIRO's Food Futures Flagship, said in a news release.
 ”If we can achieve significant yield increases in the field, this will have a major impact on food production on a global scale.”