Rye

Not to be confused with ryegrass.

For other uses, see Rye (disambiguation).

Rye (Secale cereale) is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is grown principally in an area from Eastern and Northern Europe into Russia. It is much more tolerant of cold weather and poor soil than other cereals, making it useful in those regions; its vigorous growth suppresses weeds and provides abundant forage for animals early in the year. It is a member of the wheat tribe (Triticeae) which includes the cereals wheat and barley. Rye grain is used for bread, beer, rye whiskey, and animal fodder. In Scandinavia, rye was a staple food in the Middle Ages, and rye crispbread remains a popular food in the region. Europe produces around half of the world's rye; relatively little is traded between countries. A wheat-rye hybrid, triticale, combines the qualities of the two parent crops and is produced in large quantities worldwide. In European folklore, the Roggenwolf ("rye wolf") is a carnivorous corn demon or Feldgeist.

Rye
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Pooideae
Genus:	Secale
Species:	S. cereale
Binomial name
Secale cereale L.
Synonyms
Secale fragile M.Bieb.

Origins

Wild rye

The rye genus Secale is in the grass tribe Triticeae, which contains other cereals such as barley (Hordeum) and wheat (Triticum).^[1]

The generic name Secale, related to Italian segale and French seigle meaning "rye", is of unknown origin but may derive from a Balkan language.^[2] The English name rye derives from Old English ryge, related to Dutch rogge, German Roggen, and Russian рожь rožʹ, again all with the same meaning.^[3]

Rye is one of several cereals that grow wild in the Levant, central and eastern Turkey and adjacent areas. Evidence uncovered at the Epipalaeolithic site of Tell Abu Hureyra in the Euphrates valley of northern Syria suggests that rye was among the first cereal crops to be systematically cultivated, around 13,000 years ago.^[4] However, that claim remains controversial; critics point to inconsistencies in the radiocarbon dates, and identifications based solely on grain, rather than on chaff.^[5]

Domesticated rye occurs in small quantities at a number of Neolithic sites in Asia Minor (Anatolia, now Turkey), such as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Can Hasan III near Çatalhöyük,^[6][7] but is otherwise absent from the archaeological record until the Bronze Age of central Europe, c. 1800–1500 BCE.^[8]

It is likely that rye was brought westwards from Asia Minor as a secondary crop, meaning that it was a minor admixture in wheat as a result of Vavilovian mimicry, and was only later cultivated in its own right.^[9] Archeological evidence of this grain has been found in Roman contexts along the Rhine and the Danube and in Ireland and Britain.^[10] The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder was dismissive of a grain that may have been rye, writing that it "is a very poor food and only serves to avert starvation".^[11] He said it was mixed with spelt "to mitigate its bitter taste, and even then is most unpleasant to the stomach".^[12]

Description

Rye is a tall grass grown for its seeds; it can be an annual or a biennial. Depending on environmental conditions and variety it reaches 1 to 3 metres (3 ft 3 in to 9 ft 10 in) in height. Its leaves are blue-green, long, and pointed. The seeds are carried in a curved head or spike some 7 to 15 centimetres (2.8 to 5.9 in) long. The head is composed of many spikelets, each of which holds two small flowers; the spikelets alternate left and right up the head.^[13]

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  Botanical illustration
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  Seed in husk
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  Different types of grains
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  The seeds of rye are some 7 or 8 mm long, much larger and less round than wheat.

Cultivation

1878 oil painting A Rye Field by Ivan Shishkin

Since the Middle Ages, people have cultivated rye widely in Central and Eastern Europe. It serves as the main bread cereal in most areas east of the France–Germany border and north of Hungary. In Southern Europe, it was cultivated on marginal lands.^[14]

Rye grows well in much poorer soils than those necessary for most cereal grains. Thus, it is an especially valuable crop in regions where the soil has sand or peat. Rye plants withstand cold better than other small grains, surviving snow cover that would kill winter wheat. Winter rye is the most popular: it is planted and begins to grow in autumn. In spring, the plants develop rapidly.^[15] This allows it to provide spring grazing, at a time when spring-planted wheat has only just germinated.^[16]

The physical properties of rye affect attributes of the final food product such as seed size, surface area, and porosity. The surface area of the seed directly correlates to the drying and heat transfer time.^[17] Smaller seeds have increased heat transfer, which leads to lower drying time. Seeds with lower porosity lose water more slowly during the process of drying.^[17]

Rye is harvested like wheat with a combine harvester, which cuts the plants, threshes and winnows the grain, and releases the straw to the field where it is later pressed into bales or left as soil amendment. The resultant grain is stored in local silos or transported to regional grain elevators and combined with other lots for storage and distant shipment. Before the era of mechanised agriculture, rye harvesting was a manual task performed with scythes or sickles.^[18][19]

Agroecology

Winter rye is any breed of rye planted in the autumn to provide ground cover for the winter. It grows during warmer days of the winter when sunlight temporarily warms the plant above freezing, even while there is general snow cover. It can be used as a cover crop to prevent the growth of winter-hardy weeds.^[20]

Rye grows better than any other cereal in heavy clay and light sandy soil, and infertile or drought-affected soils. It can tolerate pH between 4.5 and 8.0, but soils having pH 5.0 to 7.0 are best suited for rye cultivation. Rye grows best in fertile, well-drained loam or clay-loam soils.^[21] As for temperature, the crop can thrive in subzero environments, assisted by the production of antifreeze polypeptides (different from those produced by some fish and insects) by the leaves of winter rye.^[22]

Rye is a common, unwanted invader of winter wheat fields. If allowed to grow and mature, it may cause substantially reduced prices (docking) for harvested wheat.^[23]

Pests and diseases

Further information: List of rye diseases

The poisonous ergot fungus growing on rye

Pests including the nematode Ditylenchus dipsaci and a variety of herbivorous insects can seriously affect plant health.^[24]

Rye is highly susceptible to the ergot fungus.^[25][26] Consumption of ergot-infected rye by humans and animals results in ergotism, which causes convulsions, miscarriage, necrosis of digits, hallucinations and death. Historically, damp northern countries that depended on rye as a staple crop were subject to periodic epidemics.^[15] Modern grain-cleaning and milling methods have practically eliminated ergotism, but it remains a risk if food safety vigilance breaks down.^[27]

After an absence of 60 years, stem rust (Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici) has returned to Europe in the 2020s.^[28] Areas affected include Germany, Russia (Western Siberia), Spain, and Sweden.^[28]

Production and consumption

Exports by country (2014)^[29]

Map of global production. Rye is grown mainly across Central and Northern Europe into Russia.

Rye is grown primarily in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe. The main rye belt stretches from northern Germany through Poland, Ukraine, and eastwards into central and northern Russia. Rye is also grown in North America, in South America including Argentina, in Oceania (Australia and New Zealand), in Turkey, and in northern China. Production levels of rye have fallen since 1992 in most of the producing nations, as of 2022^[update]; for instance, production of rye in Russia fell from 13.9 metric tons in 1992 to 2.2 metric tons in 2022.^[30][31]

Top rye producers (in metric tons)

Producer	2022[31]	2020[31]	2018[31]	2016[31]	2014[31]
European Union	7,450,920	8,939,510	6,141,040	7,400,686	8,890,726
Germany	3,132,300	3,513,400	2,201,400	3,173,800	3,854,400
Poland	2,337,130	2,929,930	2,126,570	2,199,578	2,792,593
Russia	2,178,808	2,377,629	1,916,056	2,547,878	3,280,759
Belarus	750,000	1,050,702	502,505	650,908	867,075
Denmark	691,470	699,370	476,590	577,200	677,800
Canada	520,177	487,800	236,400	436,000	217,500
China	500,767	512,591	504,698	545,657	520,000
Ukraine	314,030	456,780	393,780	391,560	478,000
United States	312,460	292,930	214,180	290,379	182,610
United Kingdom	242,207	72,450	95,366	48,563	55,899
Argentina	225,510	221,201	86,098	60,676	52,130
Spain	188,880	407,620	404,280	377,355	290,970
World total	13,143,055	15,036,812	10,702,482	12,999,144	15,204,158

World trade of rye is low compared with other grains such as wheat. The total export of rye for 2016 was $186 million^[32] compared with $30.1 billion for wheat.^[33]

Poland consumes the most rye per person at 32.4 kg (71 lb) per capita (2009), followed by the Nordic and Baltic countries. The EU in general is around 5.6 kg (12 lb) per capita. The entire world only consumes 0.9 kg (2 lb) per capita.^[34]

Nutritional value

Rye

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy	1,414 kJ (338 kcal)
Carbohydrates	75.86 g
Sugars	0.98 g
Dietary fiber	15.1 g
Fat	1.63 g
Protein	10.34 g
Vitamins and minerals Vitamins Quantity %DV† Thiamine (B1) 25% 0.3 mg Riboflavin (B2) 23% 0.3 mg Niacin (B3) 25% 4 mg Pantothenic acid (B5) 20% 1 mg Vitamin B6 18% 0.3 mg Folate (B9) 10% 38 μg Choline 5% 30 mg Vitamin E 7% 1 mg Vitamin K 5% 6 μg Minerals Quantity %DV† Calcium 2% 24 mg Iron 17% 3 mg Magnesium 26% 110 mg Manganese 130% 3 mg Phosphorus 27% 332 mg Potassium 17% 510 mg Sodium 0% 2 mg Zinc 27% 3 mg
Other constituents	Quantity
Water	10.6 g
Selenium	14 µg
Link to USDA Database Entry
†Percentages estimated using US recommendations for adults,[35] except for potassium, which is estimated based on expert recommendation from the National Academies.[36]

Raw rye contains 11% water, 76% carbohydrates, 10% protein, and 2% fat (table). A 100-gram (3+1⁄2-ounce) reference amount of rye provides 1,410 kilojoules (338 kilocalories) of food energy, and is a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of essential nutrients, including dietary fiber, B vitamins, such as thiamine and niacin (each at 25% DV), and several dietary minerals. Highest micronutrient contents are for manganese (130% DV) and phosphorus (27% DV) (table).

Health effects

According to Health Canada and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, consuming at least 4 grams (0.14 oz) per day of rye beta-glucan or 0.65 grams (0.023 oz) per serving of soluble fiber can lower levels of blood cholesterol, a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.^[37][38]

Eating whole-grain rye, as well as other high-fibre grains, improves regulation of blood sugar (i.e., reduces blood glucose response to a meal).^[39] Consuming breakfast cereals containing rye over weeks to months also improved cholesterol levels and glucose regulation.^[40]

Health concerns

Like wheat, barley, and their hybrids and derivatives, rye contains glutens and related prolamines, which makes it an unsuitable grain for consumption by people with gluten-related disorders, such as celiac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and wheat allergy, among others.^[41] Nevertheless, some wheat allergy patients can tolerate rye or barley.^[42]

Uses

Food and drink

Rye grain is refined into a flour high in gliadin but low in glutenin and rich in soluble fiber. Alkylresorcinols are phenolic lipids present in high amounts in the bran layer (e.g. pericarp, testa and aleurone layers) of wheat and rye (0.1–0.3% of dry weight).^[43] Rye bread, including pumpernickel, is made using rye flour and is a widely eaten food in Northern and Eastern Europe.^[44][45] In Scandinavia, rye is widely used to make crispbread (Knäckebröd); in the Middle Ages it was a staple food in the region, and it remains popular in the 21st century.^[46]

Rye grain is used to make alcoholic drinks, such as rye whiskey and rye beer.^[13] The traditional cloudy and sweet-sour low-alcohol beverage kvass is fermented from rye bread or rye flour and malt.^[47]

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  Rye bread
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  Pumpernickel
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  Swedish rye crispbread (Knäckebröd)
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  Sultsina, a traditional Karelian dish made of unleavened rye dough and a farina filling
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  Rye whiskey
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  Rye beer

Other uses

Rye is a useful forage crop in cool climates; it grows vigorously and provides plentiful fodder for grazing animals, or green manure to improve the soil.^[48] It forms a good cover crop in winter with its rapid growth and deep roots.^[49]

Rye straw is used as livestock bedding, despite the risk of ergot poisoning.^[50] It is used on a small scale to make crafts such as corn dollies.^[51] More recently it has found uses as a raw material for bioconversion to products such as the sweetener xylitol.^[52]

Rye flour is mixed with linseed oil and iron oxide to make traditional Falun red paint, widely used as a house paint in Sweden.^[53]

Production of hybrids

Grains of wheat, rye, and their hybrid, triticale. Triticale is significantly larger than wheat.

Plant breeders, starting in the 19th century in Germany and Scotland,^[54] but mainly from the 1950s, worked to develop a hybrid cereal with the best qualities of wheat and rye, now called triticale. Modern triticales are hexaploid with six sets of chromosomes; they are used to produce millions of tons of cereal annually.^[55]

Varieties of rye hold much genetic diversity,^[56][57][58] which can be used to improve other crops such as wheat. For example, the pollination abilities of wheat can be improved by the addition of the rye chromosome 4R; this increases the size of the wheat anther and the amount of pollen.^[59] The 1R chromosome is the source of many crop disease resistance genes.^[60] Varieties such as Petkus, Insave, Amigo, and Imperial have donated 1R-originating resistance to wheat.^[60] AC Hazlet rye is a medium-sized winter rye with resistance to both lodging and shattering.^[61] Rye was the gene donor of Sr31 – a stem rust resistance gene – introgressed into wheat.^[62]

The characteristics of S. cereale have been combined with another perennial rye, S. montanum, to produce S. cereanum, which has the beneficial characteristics of each. The hybrid rye can be grown in harsh environments and on poor soil. It provides improved forage with digestible fiber and protein.^[63]

In human culture

Further information: Feldgeister

A Roggenwolf, a carnivorous spirit of the rye fields, with sheaves of harvested rye, on the coat of arms of the Bartensleben family

In European folklore, the Roggenwolf ("rye wolf") is a carnivorous corn demon or Feldgeist, a field spirit shaped like a wolf.^[64] The Roggenwolf steals children and feeds on them.^[65] The last grain heads are often left at their place as a sacrifice for the agricultural spirits.^[66]

In contrast, the Roggenmuhme or Roggenmutter ("rye aunt" or "rye mother") is an anthropomorphic female corn demon with fiery fingers. Her bosoms are filled with tar and may end in tips of iron. Her bosoms are also long, and as such must be thrown over her shoulders when she runs. The Roggenmuhme is completely black or white, and in her hand she has a birch or whip from which lightning sparks. She can change herself into different animals, such as snakes, turtles, and frogs.^[67]

The classical scholar Carl A. P. Ruck writes that the Roggenmutter was believed to go through the fields, rustling like the wind, with a pack of rye wolves running after her. They spread ergot through the sheaves of harvested rye. According to Ruck, they then lured children into the fields to nurse on the infected grains "like the iron teats of the Roggenmutter".^[68] The enlarged reddish ergot-infected grains were known as Wulfzähne (wolf teeth).^[68]

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