Sentences with phrase «resistant wheat varieties»

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.

A strong proponent and practitioner of collaboration, Norman E. Borlaug worked with Sonora farmers in the 1940 - 50s as part of a joint Rockefeller Foundation - Mexican government program that, among other outputs, generated high - yielding, disease - resistant wheat varieties.

«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.

Stem rust disease was controlled for decades through the use of resistant wheat varieties bred in the 1950s by scientist Norman Borlaug and his colleagues.

Strategically timed planting and resistant wheat varieties help decrease virus incidence, according to virologist Marie Langham.

As the fungus has become insensitive to most fungicides, demand for new Septoria resistant wheat varieties has risen sharply.

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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.

According to Akhunov, since the 1950s wheat breeders have been able to develop wheat varieties that are largely resistant to this pathogen.

«Timing, resistant varieties help decrease wheat virus.»

Nobel Peace Prize — winner Norman Borlaug developed resistant varieties of wheat that protected the world against stem rust for decades.

A variety of wheat that is resistant to a destructive fungal disease has been found to have specialized and protective cell walls, according to research published in BMC Plant Biology.

The researchers hope that the identification of these unique cell wall traits in FHB - resistant common wheat could help in breeding durum wheat varieties that are able to defend themselves against infection, and reduce fungal toxin contamination in food.

Lead author Daniela Bellincampi from Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, said: «Breeding disease - resistant varieties of durum wheat is probably the best economic and ecological strategy for fighting this invasive and destructive disease.

These insights could help to produce stronger, disease - resistant varieties of durum wheat for improved pasta production.

The researchers compared a disease - resistant variety of common wheat and a susceptible variety of durum wheat.

Joint author Agata Gadaleta from Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, said: «Now that we've identified the cell wall characteristics that make a common wheat variety resistant to FHB, work can begin on transferring these traits to vulnerable durum wheat varieties.

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.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) under UK aid, the DGGW project aims to strengthen the delivery pipeline for new, disease resistant, climate - resilient wheat varieties and to increase the yields of smallholder wheat farmers.

«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 sysWheat 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 syswheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming systems.

Bangladesh's Farmers Already Switching to Climate - Resistant Crops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other stapResistant Crops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other stapresistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other staple crops.

Recently, Lee Hickey and Adnan Riaz, crop geneticists at the University of Queensland, discovered unique drought - tolerant and disease - resistant traits in 300 old varieties of wheat seeds stored at the institute.

Kansas, the leading U.S. wheat - producing state, has used a combination of drought - resistant varieties in some areas and irrigation in others to expand corn planting to where the state now produces more corn than wheat.