Wheat is called 'a crop of the grasslands'. Explain why.
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Answer:
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.[2][3][4] The many species of wheat together make up the genus Triticum; the most widely grown is common wheat (T. aestivum). The archaeological record suggests that wheat was first cultivated in the regions of the Fertile Crescent around 9600 BCE. Botanically, the wheat kernel is a type of fruit called a caryopsis.
Explanation:
It is mainly planted in areas that were on grass lands. Areas with 10 to 30 inches [250 to 500 mm] of highly variable rainfall a year. Before the white man arrived these lands seldom grew trees due grass fires killing the trees before they got a good start.
The settlers in the low rainfall plains started planting trees and stopping fires than spread Mesquite trees from South Texas to at least as far north as US I-40 in the guts cattle being planted in cow pies all along the cattle trail by bean eating cattle. The Mesquite would withstand fire in the shorter grass that followed the over grazed tall grass. With out fire he Cedar trees encroached from the east. One has to drive a very long way to a true grass prairie that isn't more that half weedy plants.
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