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Like other grasses, teosinte shatters, but there is no known nonshattering variant.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The discovery and planting of nonshattering grain is thought to have been integral to the Neolithic revolution in the Middle East.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Finally, their wild ancestors required very little genetic change to be converted into crops—for instance, in wheat, just the mutations for nonshattering stalks and uniform quick germination.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Select the plants that yield best and are at the same time resistant to drouth, resistant to rust and to winter, early to ripen, plump of grain, and nonshattering.

From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William