Sentences with phrase «says durum wheat»
Similarly, Italy says durum wheat from the IARCs contributes $ 300 million a year to its pasta production, while one - fifth of the value of the billion - dollar American rice crop is attributed to genes from the centres.
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it just says original and the ingredients are couscous (precooked durum wheat semolina).
The paring down of wheat's genetic diversity over generations is not easy to rebuild, but Mark Sorrells, another professor of plant breeding at Cornell, is optimistic: «It is possible to make [these] kind of broad generalizations... but it is easy to cite examples in the other direction,» he said, mentioning the durum wheat used for pasta.
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.
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.
«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.