Sentences with phrase «wheat yields by»

Europe: Warmer temperatures will increase wheat yields by up to 25 per cent in the north but water availability will drop in the south by up to a quarter.

The soil - borne fungal disease can cut wheat yields by as much as 30 percent when conditions favor it.

«I am eager to join and devote myself to improving wheat yields by fighting wheat rusts,» said Liu, who received her bachelors in biotechnology from Nanjing Agricultural University, China, in 2011, and a doctorate from Washington State University in 2016.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (February 2, 2017)-- Reductions of spike - ethylene, a plant - aging hormone, could increase wheat yields by 10 to 15 percent in warm locations, according to a recent study published in New Phytologist journal.

Their results showed that from 1985 through 2011, wheat breeding programs boosted average wheat yields by 13 bushels per acre, or 0.51 bushel each year, for a total increase of 26 percent.

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Oh, and, by the way, some of why people have seeming wheat issues are that the farmer's triple spray the wheat with Round Up as a means of harvesting maximum yield.

Yield: 2 bread loaves Recipe by: Shane Ruoss This is a brief description of the naturally leavened, 100 % whole wheat bread we make using Bluebird Grain flours.

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

Shepard cautions people that her flour is designed to work on a 1 - to - 1 exchange with wheat flour in «normal» recipes and that substituting her blend in recipes calling for other gluten - free flours might not yield good results since many recipes compensate for the bad taste of the gluten - free flour by adding extra sugar and butter.

* Spring wheat yield seen at 45.5 bu / acre, up 8 pct vs 2011 * Tour pegs durum yield at 42.6 bu / acre, up 34 pct vs 2011 * Three - day tour concludes Thursday in Fargo, North Dakota (New throughout; changes dateline from previous BOTTINEAU, North Dakota) By Julie Ingwersen DEVILS LAKE, North Dakota, July 25 (Reuters)- Favorable growing conditions should result in above - average yields for the U.S. spring and durum wheat crops in northwest...

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.

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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.

There is actually an estimate that for major crops like wheat, rice and maize, that every degree Celsius rise in temperature above current temperatures could potentially decrease crop yields by between 3 - 7 % due to thermal stress.

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

Over the period under review, the yield of the breeds of winter wheat and spring barley appearing in the market for the first time increased by around one per cent per year.

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 %.

With the world population estimated to grow to 9 billion by 2050 and Earth's resources under severe strain predicted wheat yields are not expected to meet the increased demand for food.

(The worrying precedents are a drought in 1988 to 1989 that cut yields of corn by an estimated 12 % worldwide and soybeans by 8.5 %, and a 2002 to 2003 drought that afflicted wheat and rice to a lesser extent.)

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

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.

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.

Wheat lines derived from those crosses have since been used in breeding programs worldwide and have helped farmers to boost yields by up to 20 percent.

Farmers don't want to take a risk in losing their entire wheat and barley crop, so they will take a cut in yield and quality by using glyphosate a few weeks before harvest, and then harvest the crop early.

One: go for the good stuff; by that I mean I don't bother with whole wheat, quinoa -, or bean - based options, as I've yet to find a brand that yields the same perfectly al - dente texture as pasta made with refined flour.

Oh, and, by the way, some of why people have seeming wheat issues are that the farmer's triple spray the wheat with Round Up as a means of harvesting maximum yield.

By breeding staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, and soy to be more pest - and weed - resistant, more nutrient - rich and high - yielding, they hope to offer more nutrition per acre of farmed land.

The company produces salt (primarily used by cities for deicing roads but has many consumer and industrial uses as well), specialty potash (a premium fertilizer that improves the quality, yield, and shelf life of high - value fruit, vegetable, and tree nut crops), micronutrients (essential minerals that maximize plant yields), and magnesium chloride (used in numerous ways including roadway deicing, dust control, and as plant nutrients for wheat crops).

A study in Nature Climate Change concluded that a 1 degree C temperature increase will cause wheat yields to decrease by about five percent, and a French study found higher temperatures negatively affected corn crops.

The heat would also cause staple crops to suffer dramatic yield losses across the globe (it is possible that Indian wheat and U.S. corn could plummet by as much as 60 percent), this at a time when demand will be surging due to population growth and a growing demand for meat.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

«All aspects of food security are potentially affected by climate change including food access, utilisation of land, and price stability,» said Revi, adding that studies showed wheat and rice yields were decreasing due to climatic changes.

Crop ecologists have a rule of thumb that each 1 - degree - Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season lowers wheat, rice, and corn yields by 10 percent.

SciDev.net: China and India, the world's two most populous countries, are beset by stagnation in the production of staples like rice, wheat, soybean and maize (corn), says a new study on crop yield growth.

As extreme heat spreads across the middle of the country by the end of the century, some states in the Southeast, lower Great Plains, and Midwest risk up to a 50 % to 70 % loss in average annual crop yields (corn, soy, cotton, and wheat), absent agricultural adaptation.

Relative rainfall reductions were amplified 1.5 — 1.7 times in dryland wheat yields, but the impact was offset by steady increases in cropping area and crop water use efficiency (perhaps partly due to CO2 fertilization).

Maize and wheat yields will fall by up to 5 per cent in India; rice crops in China will drop by up to 12 per cent.

Combined yield increases of wheat by 2050 could range from 37 % under the B2 scenario to 101 % under the A1 scenario (Ewert et al., 2005).

Climate change threatens dramatic price fluctuations in the price of wheat and potential civil unrest because yields of one of the world's most important staple foods are badly affected by temperature rise.

To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will likely impact wheat, maize and soybean, an international team of scientists now ran an unprecedentedly comprehensive set of computer simulations of US crop yields.

Their findings suggest a rule of thumb that a 1 - degree - Celsius rise in temperature above the norm during the growing season lowers wheat, rice, and corn yields by 10 percent.

say it has been predicted that «the average temperature in the semiarid northwest portion of China in 2050 will be 2.2 °C higher than it was in 2002,» and they report that based on the observed results of their study, this increase in temperature «will lead to a significant change in the growth stages and water use of winter wheat,» such that «crop yields at both high and low altitudes will likely increase,» by 2.6 % at low altitudes and 6.0 % at high altitudes... Even without the benefits of the aerial fertilization effect and the anti-transpiration effect of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content, the increase in temperature that is predicted by climate models for the year 2050, if it ever comes to pass, will likely lead to increases in winter wheat production in the northwestern part of China, not the decreases that climate alarmists routinely predict.»

A similar situation exists in Mongolia, where over the last 20 years nearly three fourths of the wheatland has been abandoned and wheat yields have started to fall, shrinking the harvest by four fifths.

A similar situation exists in Mongolia, where over the last 20 years half the wheatland has been abandoned and wheat yields have also fallen by half, shrinking the harvest by three fourths.

«Our results show that maize yields are expected to be negatively affected by climate change, while the impacts on wheat and soybean are generally positive, unless CO2 fertilisation effects have been overestimated»....