Sentences with phrase «wheat crops worldwide»

Researchers with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences are closer to helping producers better meet global food demand, now that they've combined simulation and statistical methods to help them predict how temperature affects wheat crops worldwide.

BLASTED FUNGUS Wheat blast fungus (shown here increasingly close up) is a threat to wheat crops worldwide.

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Today, wheat is the single most cultivated crop worldwide.

Of the four major crops that feed the world (corn, soy, wheat, and rice), rice is the primary source of nutrition for three billion people worldwide.

In recent centuries potatoes have become the world's most important tuber crop and its fourth most important source of food energy (after rice, wheat, and maize): farmers and gardeners grow them worldwide.

Studies show that rice, wheat and other staple crops could lose protein and minerals, putting more people at risk of hunger worldwide.

The caterpillars of snout moths are economically important worldwide as pests of planted crops for food or biofuel, of forest trees, and of stored products such as wheat and nuts.»

More than 1 billion people are infected with disease - causing species worldwide, while other strains flourish in wheat, corn, and other crops, where they destroy food harvests.

Wheat is a vital crop, supplying 20 percent of the calories consumed by humans worldwide.

Edible grains comprise the majority of global cultivated crops and provide the greatest percentage of consumed calories worldwide, in the form of corn, rice, wild rice, wheat, barley, rye, kamut, spelt, millet, oats, triticale, buckwheat, quinoa, teff, and amaranth.

Researchers around the world at sites like the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico are studying how to improve crops and farming techniques to address worldwide hunger.

In Russia and Ukraine last year, a heat wave decimated crops and led to 80 % rises in worldwide wheat prices in three months.