BEIJING, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A severe drought in China is threatening the country's wheat crop and could affect global grain prices, the U.N. food agency warned Tuesday.
More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published Sunday in Nature Climate Change.
... research was to better understand the physiological response of the wheat crop to nitrogen. By means of a field study ... that the optimum dosage enabling the maximum yield for wheat crop, in the climatic conditions extant in Araba ...
... . He's the only federal scientist whose main mission is protecting the $17 billion U.S. wheat crop from annihilation ...
... it plays in the disease pressure put on area wheat. The virus is difficult to detect and contain because ... year's crop. From March 14-June 6, Price received 309 wheat samples ... $24,000, he said. "In calculating the counties with wheat acreage infected in the northern Panhandle, early ...
... virus poses a new threat to Texas wheat, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists in Amarillo ... on a variety of studies to determine how big of a role it plays in the disease pressure put on area wheat ...
... – is the first of its kind to be found in a commercial crop that is capable of delivering broad- ... the use of the gene sequence to directly select and breed wheat plants that carry the resistance ...
... cereal diseases, which in epidemic years cost wheat growers worldwide in excess of AUS$7 ...
Breed a better crop of wheat? That's exactly what a team of researchers from Kansas State University ... an important first step toward improving wheat crop yields to levels that can support ever ... may be affected by the phenomenon, and that this is likely to be the cause of why the wheat used for bread is remarkably hearty. Furthermore, they found that a relatively ...
Wheat crops resistant to the deadly fungus 'Ug99' have been developed by a collaboration between Kenyan and Mexican researchers.
... is a minute menace that wreaks havoc on the region's wheat crop; but it has no enemies currently that can take ... , and they want to break the green bridge between that source and the wheat crop. "This probably is not practical advice for some, because ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... included a series of fallow–spring wheat–spring wheat crop sequences where straw ... -year study was conducted to quantify how much wheat straw is actually removed through baling ... the Long-Term Impact on Soil Quality and Wheat Production," by G.P. Lafond and others. The results ...
... stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world's wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race ...
