§ 38. Mr. Bryant Godman Irvineasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science to which official bodies he has given responsibility for research into better varieties of hard wheat; and what work is being undertaken.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsResearch on the development of better varieties of hard wheat is being carried out at the Plant Breeding Institute, Cambridge, in close co-operation with workers at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and the Flour Milling and Baking Research Association.
The Plant Breeding Institute has an extensive programme for breeding high quality wheats of improved milling and baking quality.