Sentences with phrase «of wheat yield»

Nature Climate Change, 3: 497 - 501 Lobell, D. B., J. I. Ortiz - Monasterio, G. P. Asner, P. A. Matson, R. L. Naylor and W. P. Falcon, 2005: Analysis of wheat yield and climatic trends in Mexico.

More than a third of wheat yield can be lost due to STB and it is the most significant disease of wheat in Europe and many other temperate climates.

Where CO2 is relevant is in explaining much of growth in crop yields — I have just done a test using a quadratic function on CO2, temperature, and rainfall which produces an amazingly accurate hindcast of wheat yields in Moree NSW 1965 - 1999 using just those 3 variables.

Not exact matches

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

If the spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.

The Great Plains and the Midwestern part of the United States have experienced extremely cold temperatures during the early spring as that is causing some concerns on crop yields as I do think wheat prices could test the $ 5 level possibly in next week's trade.

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.

The wild relatives of commercial varieties, ranging from tomatoes to wheat, have provided genes worth billions of dollars in higher crop yields.

Is it from the way we've gotten higher wheat crop yields through the magic of modern chemestry?

Oh, and, by the way, some of why people have seeming wheat issues are that the farmer's triple spray the wheat with Round Up as a means of harvesting maximum yield.

Yield: 2 bread loaves Recipe by: Shane Ruoss This is a brief description of the naturally leavened, 100 % whole wheat bread we make using Bluebird Grain flours.

In order to create wheat that yields more grain, resist fungal diseases and pest attacks, improves the ease of harvesting (mechanically) and meets the unrealistic demands of industrial milling and mechanized baking methods, science has intervened and it's our health that's paying the price.

A small amount of coconut flour provides a high yield of baked goods, relative to wheat flour.

Once the predominant wheat of Kansas, it was eventually replaced with modern higher - yielding varieties of wheat by the 1940s.

Yield: 12 muffins Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups freshly ground or soaked spelt, kamut or whole wheat flour 1/2 cup water mixed with 1 tablespoon of yogurt 1 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen 1 egg, lightly beaten 1/4 teaspoon fine Celtic sea salt 1/2 cup extra-virgin coconut oil 1/3 cup honey 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 tablespoon fresh grated ginger 1 teaspoon ground ginger

Shepard cautions people that her flour is designed to work on a 1 - to - 1 exchange with wheat flour in «normal» recipes and that substituting her blend in recipes calling for other gluten - free flours might not yield good results since many recipes compensate for the bad taste of the gluten - free flour by adding extra sugar and butter.

Yield: 32 Servings 3 cups of old - fashioned rolled oats 1/2 cup almond flour 1/4 cup sorghum flour or whole wheat flour 1/2 cup oat bran 1/2 cup ground flaxseed 1/2 cup roasted, chopped almonds 1/2 cup dried blueberries 1/2 cup chopped, dried cranberries 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup agave nectar 1/3 cup natural almond butter, stirred well before measuring 1/4 cup Almond Breeze 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Directions Preheat the oven to 325 °F.

Then there was exciting news from India's poorest state, Bihar (pop 100 million, and 50 % of families in poverty), where the application of what's called the System of Rice / Root Intensification (SRI) has «dramatically increased yields with wheat, potatoes, sugar cane, yams, tomatoes, garlic, aubergine and many other crops», according to the Guardian newspaper.

We discuss future opportunities to improve wheat yields in variable rainfed environments in the light of climate change.

For example, mixtures of «heritage» wheat varieties grown together can lead to increased yields, better resilience and enhanced soils.

None of the strategies tested offset the expected fall in wheat production, but the study identified directions for wheat breeding (canopy vigour and root characteristics) and management to minimise yield losses in a hotter and drier climate.

Brent Rageth from Rageth Farm in Byron, Wyoming has worked with Wyoming Whiskey from the start to select strains of non-GMO corn, wheat, barley, and winter rye for specific starch and sugar yields, the building blocks of bourbon making.

This delicate handcrafted blend of our own nutty Einka berries (Einkorn wheat) and peppery french lentils yields a full bodied meal with endless possibilities.

Rising temperatures will slash yields for rice, wheat and corn throughout the developing world, exacerbating food price volatility and increasing the number of undernourished people, the report warns.

Yields of this staple grain have increased exponentially since the 1950s because better farming practices and new wheat breeds have more than made up for those hot Julys.

Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

Without adaptation, some Midwestern and Southern counties could see yield declines of more than 10 percent over the next five to 25 years if they continue to sow corn, wheat, soy and cotton, the report says.

By that time, CIMMYT predicts, almost a quarter of South Asia's wheat yield could be wiped out by global warming.

It finds that heat stress concurrent with drought or water excess can explain about 40 % of the changes in wheat yields from one year to another.

The high overall activity of resistance genes did not cause any negative effects for the development of the wheat or its yield.

«If you grow lines of wheat that are not adapted to a specific environment, you will not get a very high yield.»

Mitch Tuinstra, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Purdue, likened Schulz's work with corn to what Norman Borlaug did for the development of high - yield wheat crops in the 1960s and 1970s.

Wheat yields could be significantly increased thanks to varieties with a superior form of a common enzyme, according to new research.

The two centers are already collaborating on improving yields of rice and wheat in the Indo - Ganges plain.

Two of the most efficient were Rubisco from plants known as Aegilops cylindrica (jointed goatgrass) and Hordeum vulgare (barley), which both showed promising Rubisco catalytic properties that should be explored in the context of improving photosynthesis, and ultimately grain yield, in wheat.

It also implies that the apparent loss of genetic diversity following the introduction of high - yielding Green Revolution wheat and rice varieties in the 1960s and 1970s, and attending the rapid adoption of superior GM crops today, is far from a new phenomenon.

One shovelful yielded material later determined to be ancient wheat, prompting Pumpelly to declare that Central Asian oases were the original source of domesticated grain.

Businesses, consultants and scientists sometimes ask themselves whether plant breeders are still able to raise the yield of crops such as winter wheat and potatoes today.

Over the period under review, the yield of the breeds of winter wheat and spring barley appearing in the market for the first time increased by around one per cent per year.

Using conventional breeding techniques, Borlaug's crucial breakthrough was crossing stubby - stalked dwarf wheat with high - yielding varieties, resulting in a plant that was both extremely productive — when given ample fertilizer — and strong enough to hold up under the weight of large clusters of grain.

Subsequently cited in 54 papers, the Science study showed that even using the lower end of 23 climate models suggested that in the tropics at the end of the century, «the hottest seasons on record will represent the future norm in many locations,» with the devastating impacts on wheat and rice yields.

(The worrying precedents are a drought in 1988 to 1989 that cut yields of corn by an estimated 12 % worldwide and soybeans by 8.5 %, and a 2002 to 2003 drought that afflicted wheat and rice to a lesser extent.)

This research quantifies the impact of weather, diseases and new wheat varieties on yields.

Their results showed that from 1985 through 2011, wheat breeding programs boosted average wheat yields by 13 bushels per acre, or 0.51 bushel each year, for a total increase of 26 percent.

Scientists at Aarhus University have discovered that fungi associated with plant roots may improve growth and yield of drought - stressed wheat.

Based on these test results, scientists subsequently applied the multi-model ensemble to estimate wheat yields under increasing temperature in the main cultivation areas of the world.

«Although wheat yields in the UK and World increased dramatically in the latter half of the twentieth century, increases this century have proved elusive.

Worldwide this would correspond to 42 million tons of yield reduction, which equals a quarter of current global wheat trade.