The discovery clears the way for breeders to
develop wheat varieties with the disease - and pest - resistance traits of other grasses, using a legion of genetic tools that can reduce crop losses and pesticide use while foregoing the cost, regulatory hurdles and controversy of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
According to Akhunov, since the 1950s wheat breeders have been able to
develop wheat varieties that are largely resistant to this pathogen.
Wheat researchers meeting at ICARDA in April said they had
developed wheat varieties that can resist the new strain of yellow rust.
For example, Australian company Dow AgroSciences has used speed breeding to
develop a wheat variety with greater resistance to pre-harvest sprouting.
Not exact matches
The discovery may help scientists
develop new
wheat varieties and strategies that protect the world's food crops against the
wheat stem rust pathogen.
Research institutions successfully
developed new
varieties of rice and
wheat which were capable of much higher yields per acre than any of the then - known
varieties.
A. White
wheat has been the principal type of
wheat grown in Australia for many decades, but different
varieties needed to be
developed to match conditions in the US.
Varieties of white
wheat currently grown in the US were
developed during the 1970s and 1980s by cross-breeding strains of red
wheat.
Whether
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IFPRI's fellows in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research system are
developing, for example, drought - tolerant or heat - resistant
varieties of staple crops such as
wheat and rice.
NEW DELHI — Hoping to kick - start another green revolution, the Indian government on 5 October announced the creation of a research center to
develop wheat and maize
varieties that thrive in warmer temperatures and on degraded land.
«
Developing climate - resilient
wheat varieties.»
Fructan content of
wheat grain varies by genotype, however, the utility of fructans as a breeding target to
develop climate resilience, nutritious
wheat varieties has not been examined.
Nobel Peace Prize — winner Norman Borlaug
developed resistant
varieties of
wheat that protected the world against stem rust for decades.
To address other micronutrient deficiencies, researchers in the Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology of Professor Gruissem at ETH Zurich and in other countries also
developed rice
varieties with increased iron levels in the rice and
wheat grains, for example.
By the time he died, in 2009, researchers had
developed 15
varieties of high - yielding
wheat that can resist the new disease.
Improvising in an abandoned field station in Mexico, Borlaug
developed new
varieties of
wheat that could resist a devastating fungal disease — clashing with bureaucrats along the way.
He and his colleagues spent the next decade crossing thousands of strains of
wheat from across the globe, ultimately
developing a high - yielding, disease resistant
variety.
As part of its programme to
develop the GM
wheat, it had tested the GM
varieties between 1998 and 2004 in 17 US states, including Oregon.
«The Bangladesh variant is still sensitive to fungicides, but this may not last forever, so we're rushing to
develop and spread new, blast - resistant
wheat varieties for South Asia,» Singh explained.
A new research breakthrough will enable us to
develop more robust and better
wheat varieties in the years ahead.
«As of 2012, the start of the most recent phase of ACIAR - funded work, Afghanistan partners have
developed and released 12 high - yielding and disease resistant bread
wheat varieties, as well as 3
varieties of durum
wheat, 2 of barley and 3 of maize,» said Rajiv Sharma, a senior
wheat scientist at CIMMYT and country liaison officer for CIMMYT in Afghanistan.
At a recent meeting, 30 scientists from the International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Rothamsted Research, a UK - based independent science institute, agreed to pool expertise in research to develop higher - yielding, more disease resistant and nutritious wheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming sys
Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Rothamsted Research, a UK - based independent science institute, agreed to pool expertise in research to
develop higher - yielding, more disease resistant and nutritious
wheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming sys
wheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming systems.
In the last five years, the Agricultural Research Institute of Afghanistan (ARIA) of the country's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock (MAIL) has used CIMMYT breeding lines to
develop and make available to farmers seed of 15 high - yielding, disease resistant
wheat varieties.
WSU's tests involved
wheat varieties developed at the university, at sister universities and by two of the three largest commercial
wheat seed companies in the Pacific Northwest.
In Australia, Arista has partnered with an agricultural company to
develop high - amylose
wheat varieties suitable for different regions.
Another key component of the
wheat program, especially moving into the future, is the collaboration of AgriLife
wheat genetic scientists with the AgriLife Genomics and Bioinformatics Service to reduce the time to
develop improved
wheat varieties, he said.
The two centers work together to
develop some of the most widely grown
wheat varieties in Texas and across the Great Plains, Rudd said.
HarvestPlus supports the Zambia Agriculture Research Institute (ZARI) to breed, test, and release
varieties of vitamin A maize
developed through our partnership with the International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA).
Celiac disease
develops when a person makes antibodies against a
wheat protein called gluten such that eating anything containing gluten results in intestinal discomfort and a
variety other symptoms including joint pain, skin rashes, and fatigue.
The new gluten - free
variety is being
developed from regular
wheat that has been gene - edited to reduce the amount of gliadin.
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Varieties were
developed for life stage (puppy / kitten, adult and mature), size (small and large breed for dogs) and grain - free.
A group of scientists won the 2017 Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security for applying advanced breeding techniques to strains of primitive and modern
wheat to
develop a set of durum
wheat varieties that can not only withstand constant 35 to 40 degree Celsius (95 to 104 degree Fahrenheit) heat,
With 9 billion people to feed by 2050 and with crops facing increased stress from rising temperatures and drought, plant breeders must marshal all of the available crop diversity to continuously
develop new
varieties of
wheat, maize, rice, and other foods.
The first Green Revolution
developed improved
varieties of
wheat and rice at the exclusion of African staple root crops and tropical maize.