Sentences with phrase «strains of wheat»

The government quickly adopted several key production - boosting measures, including a 40 percent rise in the grain support price paid to farmers, an increase in agricultural credit, and heavy investment in developing higher - yielding strains of wheat, rice, and corn, their leading crops.

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In addition, traditional populations used older, unmodified strains of wheat and utilized stone - ground whole wheat berries rather than refined white flour.

This is not to say that there aren't certain people who could eat ancient strains of wheat under certain conditions and be healthy.

One reason, as mentioned before, was the use of the new, hardier strains of wheat.

Rapid global spread of two aggressive strains of a wheat rust fungus.

If the trial succeeds, newer strains of wheat would need to be modified to create commercial products — but that's a long way off, Hawkesford stresses.

Other strains of wheat grown nearby still had the defense mechanism.

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.

«Invasions out of center of diversity increase risk of disease epidemics in wheat: Strains of wheat pathogen causing severe yellow rust epidemics in Europe have origin in the center of diversity in the Himalayan region.»

One reason, as mentioned before, was the use of the new, hardier strains of wheat.

The Denver - based company has a process, described on Vice, that uses «mushroom technology» to remove gluten from strains of wheat.

Spelt flour comes from an ancient strain of wheat.

A number of chefs and bakers have begun working with this new strain of wheat, including Chad Robertson of Tartine Bakery in San Francisco, and Zachary Golper, baker and owner of Bien Cuit Bakery in Brooklyn.

To the keen observer, a stroll through Heritage Park will reveal such treasures as a strain of wheat dating back over 10,000 years, heritage potatoes, purple carrots, striped beans and other heirloom vegetables and flowers that are no longer easily accessible.

Eduard Akhunov, associate professor of plant pathology at Kansas State University, stands in front of the einkorn wheat researchers used for identifying the Sr35 gene that is resistant to the Ug99 strain of wheat stem rust.

For the first time, a team has created a salt - tolerant strain of wheat that raises yields on salt - damaged fields under real growing conditions.

After hearing that researchers had pinpointed the genetic strain of wheat that was used to brew beer in the Middle East 2 millennia ago, the Jerusalem brewmaster got some and made a 5 - gallon batch to share with friends.

When a new strain of wheat is grown in greenhouses, yields rise by 15 to 20 per cent, a team at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK, said last week.

Any strain of wheat is excellent but it has to be soaked overnight and takes a long time to cook.

The mutation for an altered form of the acetohydroxyacid synthetase gene was provoked and selected, making this strain of wheat resistant to the herbicide Beyond, or imizamox, allowing the farmer to spray the herbicide freely, killing weeds (and soil microbiota) but not the wheat.

Recall that Clearfield wheat, the semi-dwarf strain of wheat now grain on nearly one million acres in the Pacific northwest of the U.S., is the product of chemical mutagenesis, the purposeful induction of mutations using chemicals.

Not exact matches

Varieties of white wheat currently grown in the US were developed during the 1970s and 1980s by cross-breeding strains of red wheat.

Strain the wheat berries (they'll absorb a lot of the broth as they cook, but not all of it), and let them cool to room temperature.

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.

Came out perfect:) I hate when people change the whole recipe but here I just wanted to make do with what I had at home so since I didn't have whole - wheat flour I just used white flour, I used Turkish strained yogurt which wasn't liquid enough so I had to add some extra milk and I also doubled the spices (because you can never have enough cinnamon hehe I probably put about a tablespoon of cinnamon and a tablespoon of pumpkin spice which is basically cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg etc).

But Sands is plugging ahead, working with researchers in Syria and other countries to find varieties of wheat and barley that preferentially harbor the right strains of syringae.

Based on the location of recent outbreaks, Colin Wellings of the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, says some of the world's major wheat producers are at risk from the new strain.

Wheat researchers meeting at ICARDA in April said they had developed wheat varieties that can resist the new strain of yellow Wheat researchers meeting at ICARDA in April said they had developed wheat varieties that can resist the new strain of yellow wheat varieties that can resist the new strain of yellow rust.

A new, aggressive strain of yellow rust, a fungal disease of wheat, is waiting in the wings, and east Africa isn't the only region at risk.

One possibility is that a wheat - infecting strain was brought in from South America, says Nick Talbot, a plant pathologist at the University of Exeter, UK.

The supply situation has been further strained, as some of the wheat in government reserves since 2009/10 is deteriorating.

Beginning in 1944, Iowa - born biologist Norman Borlaug spent nearly 30 years in Mexican fields, crossing different kinds of wheat strains by hand.

The gene responsible for the new strain's salt tolerance, taken from an ancient ancestor of modern wheat, may help other crops.

Since the turn of the century, however, aggressive new strains have emerged — such as «Ug99», first detected in Uganda in 1999 — that infect widely grown varieties of wheat.

Now, a team of scientists of the University of Cambridge, the UK Met Office and CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre) have adapted modelling systems previously used to forecast, ash dispersal from erupting volcanoes and radiation from nuclear accidents (NAME), to predict when and how Ug99 and other such strains are most likely to spread.

«From our work, we now believe that if we start to see Ug99 or other new wheat rust strains take hold in Yemen in early spring then action must be taken immediately to mitigate the risk of further spread.»

The research, published today in the journal Nature Plants, quantifies for the first time the circumstances — routes, timings and outbreak sizes — under which dangerous strains of stem rust pose a threat from long - distance dispersal out of East Africa to the large wheat - producing areas in India and Pakistan.

So he's used selective breeding to create strains of farmed fish that get by on food that's less expensive than little fish — feed made from soybeans, corn and wheat.

In the past decade, the rapid spread of aggressive strains of yellow rust, and the emergence and spread of Ug99, have demonstrated that only combined, international efforts may solve or reduce these serious problems, which are threatening the daily bread supply in many wheat growing areas in Asia and Africa.

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Scientists have shown that the first appearance of wheat stem rust disease in the U.K. in nearly 60 years, which occurred in 2013, was caused by the same virulent fungal strain responsible for recent wheat stem rust outbreaks in Ethiopia, Denmark, Germany, and Sweden.

The study reveals the evolution of bread wheat from ancestral strains through to its current domesticated form.

The use of resistant wheat strains limits its effectiveness as a biological weapon, but it still has the potential to be dangerous.

There are two general types of resistance genes found in wheat: Race - specific genes confer a high - level of resistance to specific strains of leaf rust but can be easily overcome by genetic mutation in pathogen populations, while slow rusting (APR) resistance provides partial resistance to a broad spectrum of races, but is typically effective only at the adult stage of plant growth.

Worse still is when agribusiness and geneticists change the seeds of grasses, with their genetic manipulations converting, for example, 4 - and - a-half-foot tall traditional wheat into 18 - inch tall high - yield semidwarf strains that now comprise 99 % of all wheat grown worldwide, or insert various genes for herbicide resistance, as in genetically modified corn.

Watch out for grains like wheat as well; there's some evidence that since gluten is poorly digested, it gets relegated to the bacteria for breakdown and apparently unhealthy strains of bacteria love to feast on it the most.

Strain the wheat berries (they'll absorb a lot of the broth as they cook, but not all of it), and let them cool to room temperature.

While others don't go so far as to disrupt field research (in this case testing a wheat strain modified to lower the grain's glycemic index and increase fiber), the sentiments expressed by the raiders down under are popular among foodies and others who envision some kind of no - impact utopia feeding some 9 billion people.

Iraq's bank of ancient wheat, barley and other crop strains in the town of Abu Ghraib — made infamous for other reasons — was looted during the war (mainly for the containers holding grain samples, not for the grain itself).