Sentences with phrase «wheat variety yield»

Although the best wheat varieties yield up to 12 tons per hectare, breeders have for several years been unable to boost that yield substantially.

Not exact matches

Research institutions successfully developed new varieties of rice and wheat which were capable of much higher yields per acre than any of the then - known varieties.

The wild relatives of commercial varieties, ranging from tomatoes to wheat, have provided genes worth billions of dollars in higher crop yields.

Once the predominant wheat of Kansas, it was eventually replaced with modern higher - yielding varieties of wheat by the 1940s.

For example, mixtures of «heritage» wheat varieties grown together can lead to increased yields, better resilience and enhanced soils.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

NEW DELHI, INDIA — A new wheat variety that yields a whopping 18 tons per hectare was unveiled here yesterday at a conference sponsored by the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mewheat variety that yields a whopping 18 tons per hectare was unveiled here yesterday at a conference sponsored by the International Wheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in MeWheat and Maize Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico.

The first high - yield seed varieties were wheat, which is a temperate - zone crop, and paddy rice, which is an irrigation - based technology.

Wheat yields could be significantly increased thanks to varieties with a superior form of a common enzyme, according to new research.

It also implies that the apparent loss of genetic diversity following the introduction of high - yielding Green Revolution wheat and rice varieties in the 1960s and 1970s, and attending the rapid adoption of superior GM crops today, is far from a new phenomenon.

It has been replaced by higher yielding pasta and bread wheat varieties.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

Using conventional breeding techniques, Borlaug's crucial breakthrough was crossing stubby - stalked dwarf wheat with high - yielding varieties, resulting in a plant that was both extremely productive — when given ample fertilizer — and strong enough to hold up under the weight of large clusters of grain.

All yield data are for dryland (non-irrigated) hard red winter wheat, including 245 varieties.

This research quantifies the impact of weather, diseases and new wheat varieties on yields.

Pearce strongly criticises the «green revolution», which has dramatically increased yields in some parts of the world through planting of high - input, dwarf varieties of wheat and rice.

Recent research from Aarhus University demonstrates that the fungi can improve growth and yield in some wheat varieties under drought stress.

By the time he died, in 2009, researchers had developed 15 varieties of high - yielding wheat that can resist the new disease.

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.

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.

Overnight Borlaug bred a wheat variety with double the yield.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) under UK aid, the DGGW project aims to strengthen the delivery pipeline for new, disease resistant, climate - resilient wheat varieties and to increase the yields of smallholder wheat farmers.

Because disease organisms mutate quickly to overcome crop resistance controlled by single genes, researchers are rushing to identify new resistance genes and to incorporate multiple genes into high - yielding varieties, according to Ravi Singh, CIMMYT wheat scientist who participated in the reported study.

A strong proponent and practitioner of collaboration, Norman E. Borlaug worked with Sonora farmers in the 1940 - 50s as part of a joint Rockefeller Foundation - Mexican government program that, among other outputs, generated high - yielding, disease - resistant wheat varieties.

Technology such as high - yielding wheat varieties that tolerate drought and high temperatures, as well as resisting new or modified strains of deadly crop diseases spawned in rapidly warming environments, are the outputs from WHEAT research that lead to positive outcomes for farmers and consuwheat varieties that tolerate drought and high temperatures, as well as resisting new or modified strains of deadly crop diseases spawned in rapidly warming environments, are the outputs from WHEAT research that lead to positive outcomes for farmers and consuWHEAT research that lead to positive outcomes for farmers and consumers.

«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.

At a recent meeting, 30 scientists from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Rothamsted Research, a UK - based independent science institute, agreed to pool expertise in research to develop higher - yielding, more disease resistant and nutritious wheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming sysWheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Rothamsted Research, a UK - based independent science institute, agreed to pool expertise in research to develop higher - yielding, more disease resistant and nutritious wheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming syswheat varieties for use in more productive, climate - resilient farming systems.

In the last five years, the Agricultural Research Institute of Afghanistan (ARIA) of the country's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock (MAIL) has used CIMMYT breeding lines to develop and make available to farmers seed of 15 high - yielding, disease resistant wheat varieties.

The emerging industrial model of agriculture dictated that a few varieties of high yielding wheat would be grown in the specific locations suited to grow it.