Science news articles about 'wheat crop'

  • Dosage of fertilizer helps to enhance quality of wheat

    ... One of the aims of the UPV/EHU research was to better understand the physiological response of the wheat crop to nitrogen. By means of a field study in the Basque province of Araba, carried out with ...
  • Research budgets cut amid food crisis, wheat worry

    ... bulwark against a devastating new plant disease. He's the only federal scientist whose main mission is protecting the $17 billion U.S. wheat crop from annihilation....
  • New virus threatens High Plains wheat crop

    ... last year's crop. From March 14-June 6, Price received 309 wheat samples. Of ... $24,000, he said. "In calculating the counties with wheat acreage infected in the northern Panhandle, early diagnosis ...
  • New Virus Threatens High Plains Wheat Crop

    ... virus poses a new threat to Texas wheat, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists in Amarillo ... variety of studies to determine how big of a role it plays in the disease pressure put on area wheat ...
  • Saving wheat crops worldwide

    ... major cereal diseases, which in epidemic years cost wheat growers worldwide in excess of AUS$7.8 ... the gene sequence to directly select and breed wheat plants that carry the resistance against multiple ...
  • Saving Wheat Crops Worldwide

    ... and international collaborators have discovered the key to overcoming three major cereal diseases, which in epidemic years cost wheat growers worldwide in excess of AUS$7.8 billion ($5 billion).
  • Greatest thing since sliced bread: New data offer important clues toward improving wheat yields

    ... an important first step toward improving wheat crop yields to levels that can support ever- ... thousands of genes in the parent strains and the synthetic wheat offspring using a gene chip. The data then ...
  • New wheat varieties to tackle crop-destroying fungus

    Wheat crops resistant to the deadly fungus 'Ug99' have been developed by a collaboration between Kenyan and Mexican researchers.
  • Wheat curl mite might require non-chemical control

    ... will harbor the mites, and they want to break the green bridge between that source and the wheat crop. "This probably is not practical advice for some, because wheat destined for grazing is planted ...
  • Arsenic in irrigation water is transferred to crops

    ... element at levels up to 35 times higher than crops on which this water was not used. The scientists have also confirmed the impact of water with high arsenic content on beet, carrot and wheat crops...
  • Arsenic In Irrigation Water Is Transferred To Crops

    ... element at levels up to 35 times higher than crops on which this water was not used. The scientists have also confirmed the impact of water with high arsenic content on beet, carrot and wheat crops.
  • A 'time bomb' for world wheat crop

    The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world's wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S. ...
  • Ethanol production could jeopardize soil productivity

    ... organic matter. Consequently, extensive removal of crop residues for ethanol production—or for other industrial purposes ... included a series of fallow–spring wheat–spring wheat crop sequences where straw ...
  • GM as a tool in struggle against poverty

    ... of the world, such as in the Middle East, Kazakhstan and Australia. 70% of Australia's wheat crop is affected by salt that is found as much a metre beneath the surface – this is important, as...

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