From a single seed : Il n'aura fallu qu'une seule graine - l'odyssée heureuse du blé Marquis au Canada depuis ses origines en Ukraine

He began with the Red Fife story, the annals of Canadian spring wheat breeding, and the story of the settlement and development of Western Canada. [...] They are encoded in the gene set of the chromosomes in the nucleus of the wheat cell. [...] In the first half of the nineteenth century the cultivation of grain in Western Europe and the New World (America and Australia) was in its infancy. [...] The kernel consists of four parts: the seed coat (pericarp), the fruit coat (aleurone layer), the endosperm, and the germ, or embryo. [...] The proportions and arrangements of the components determine the hardness or softness of the kernel.