Sentences with phrase «tolerant wheat varieties»
Dr Dash said farmers would have to think seriously about changing to more heat - tolerant wheat varieties.
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In Australia, at CSIRO plant Industry in Canberra, Richard Richards has bred drought tolerant wheat varieties called Vigour X-25 and Drysdale that yield 10 % to 20 % gains in arid conditions.
Dr Karthikeyan Thiyagarajan has been awarded the 2014 Vavilov - Frankel Fellowship to conduct genetic research on salinity - tolerant wheat varieties.
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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.
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.