Sentences with phrase «wheat breeders»

Researchers anticipate this will help wheat breeders design wheat varieties that can adapt and thrive in changing environments around the world.

As Montana's climate is projected to warm in the coming decades, spring wheat breeders at MSU are focusing on conventional breeding techniques to boost tolerance to drought and hotter temperatures in spring wheat varieties.

The center honors the 1970 Peace Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug, a renowned wheat breeder who helped lead the first green revolution in the 1960s and avert widespread famine in India.

«A wheat line's adaptation to its local environment is probably one of the most important properties of the plant for wheat breeders because it directly influences crop production,» Akhunov said.

The famines did not eventuate because of the Green Revolution and its visionary leader, wheat breeder Norman Borlaug.

The wheat program is represented by Texas A&M AgriLife Research wheat breeders Dr. Amir Ibrahim, College Station, and Dr. Jackie Rudd, Amarillo.

The new and improved wheat assembly will help wheat breeders accelerate their crop improvement programmes and researchers to discover genes for key traits such as yield, nutrient use and bread making quality.

Wheat breeder Jorge Dubcovsky of the University of California, Davis, led an international team that discovered the gene — dubbed gpc - B1 for its effect on grain protein content — in a wild emmer wheat that has grown naturally in the Middle East for millennia.

Working with SDSU's winter wheat breeder, Langham annually evaluates cultivars for resistance to wheat streak.

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

Professor Brown suggests that as wheat breeders selected ever more strongly for higher yield, susceptibility to Septoria hitch - hiked along with it.

«When it comes to tech transfer, it's often a one - size - fits - all model, dominated by patents,» says wheat breeder P. Stephen Baenziger of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

Last summer, SDSU spring wheat breeder Karl Glover provided Kim with 40 lines of South Dakota wheat — half tolerant and half susceptible to preharvest sprouting.

In an article from MSU News, Dr. Luther Talbert, a spring wheat breeder in MSU's Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, states that «The goal of the spring wheat breeding program is try to be steps ahead of what's next... There are always pests and diseases, but climate and temperature changes are variable and hard to forecast.

«The Bread Lab strives to keep the value derived from agriculture in the region where it's produced,» said Jones, widely regarded as one of the nation's premier wheat breeders.

Dr. Jackie Rudd, Amarillo, and Dr. Amir Ibrahim, College Station, are Texas A&M AgriLife Research wheat breeders representing the program in Washington at Wheat 102.

«This is great news because preharvest sprouting is a very difficult trait for wheat breeders to handle through breeding alone,» said Bikram Gill, university distinguished professor of plant pathology and director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center.

Famines did not eventuate because of the Green Revolution and its visionary leader, wheat breeder Norman Borlaug.

«This is the first wheat genotype that we know of that has tolerance to this disease,» said Kim Kidwell, interim spring wheat breeder and associate dean of academic programs for WSU's College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences.

According to Stephen Jones, a wheat breeder at Washington State University, it's not the gluten, it's the way we make the bread that is causing all the gluten intolerance:

tauschii into wheat and are now available to wheat breeders.

As a first line of defense, wheat breeders and researchers began looking for resistance genes among those that had already been discovered in the existing germplasm repositories, he said.

«Until that point, wheat breeders had two or three genes that were so efficient against stem rust for decades that this disease wasn't the biggest concern,» Akhunov said.

The resource, a collection of wheat seeds with more than 10 million sequenced and carefully catalogued genetic mutations, is freely available to wheat breeders and researchers, and is already aiding in the development of wheat plants with improved traits.

To maintain food security, wheat breeders are working to develop plants that offer more nutritional value, have greater yields, and can thrive in a changing climate.

She has followed in the footsteps of her late father, a wheat breeder who led efforts to develop high - yielding, disease - resistant, semi-dwarf wheat varieties in the mid-20th century.

Wheat breeders can now bring a small tissue sample of a wheat plant into a lab and test whether it has the preharvest sprouting resistance gene rather than finding out once the crop grows.

The sequencing of goat grass DNA opens the way for wheat breeders to apply a number of advanced approaches to improve the speed and precision of wheat breeding for important traits that may be found in the goat grass segment of the wheat genome.