Brief introduction of blood wheat

Blood wheat is another name for high-iron and zinc wheat Qinhei 1. Qinhei 1 is a new wheat germplasm for high iron and zinc, which was bred by He, an associate researcher of Northwest University and Yangling Yikang Crop Development Institute, using the newly discovered wild purple wheat resources. Its key breeding technology, high-iron and zinc wheat breeding method, won the national invention patent number ZL.200610041972.0 in June 2009.