Sentences with phrase «wheat yields from»

It finds that heat stress concurrent with drought or water excess can explain about 40 % of the changes in wheat yields from one year to another.

Not exact matches

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

Is it from the way we've gotten higher wheat crop yields through the magic of modern chemestry?

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Tartlet Crusts: this recipe, made with whole wheat flour, yielded beautiful, sturdy 4 inch tartlet crusts that held up even when removed from the tart pans and slid off the removable bottoms.

Almond meal — Also called just «ground almonds,» the meal ground from whole almonds is versatile and yields a great texture, though heavier than wheat - based flour.

Then there was exciting news from India's poorest state, Bihar (pop 100 million, and 50 % of families in poverty), where the application of what's called the System of Rice / Root Intensification (SRI) has «dramatically increased yields with wheat, potatoes, sugar cane, yams, tomatoes, garlic, aubergine and many other crops», according to the Guardian newspaper.

Brent Rageth from Rageth Farm in Byron, Wyoming has worked with Wyoming Whiskey from the start to select strains of non-GMO corn, wheat, barley, and winter rye for specific starch and sugar yields, the building blocks of bourbon making.

* 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...

The two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.

In fact, genes first identified in Arabidopsis have already offered lessons on how to ripen tomatoes, protect wheat from disease and increase rape seed oil (canola) yields, among other things.

Two of the most efficient were Rubisco from plants known as Aegilops cylindrica (jointed goatgrass) and Hordeum vulgare (barley), which both showed promising Rubisco catalytic properties that should be explored in the context of improving photosynthesis, and ultimately grain yield, in wheat.

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.

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 %.

Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) is a fungal disease that affects worldwide wheat production due to dramatic yield loss, and reduced grain quality from toxins that make harvests unsuitable for consumption.

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.

In addition, wheat yield declines due to climate change are likely to be larger than previously thought and should be expected earlier, starting even with small increases in temperature,» points out Prof. Dr. Reimund Rötter from Natural Resources Institute Finland.

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

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.

«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.

As part of varied approaches at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate chaWheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate chawheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate chawheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate chawheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate changes.

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.

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.

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.

The disease can cut wheat yields 80 percent and could spread to southern Asia and southern Africa from spots where it has been found in Africa and the Middle East.

Check out the CO2 fertilisation effect, which is already far greater than any climate change effect on agriculture: 15 - 40 % increases in wheat yields are likely from CO2 doubling.

Effects of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration on Wheat Yield: Review of Results from Experiment using Various Approaches to Control CO2 Concentration.

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

«Without successful adaptation, and given the persistent rise in demand for maize and wheat, the sizable yield setback from climate change is likely incurring large economic and health costs,» the report states.

Feeling the heat: the yield from wheat harvests in India is falling Image: Yann via Wikimedia Commons

The images were taken at weekly intervals, from 2002 to 2007, of the wheat - growing seasons to measure the «vegetation greenness» − an indicator of crop yield.

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).

Among the economic costs climate change is expected to enact on the United States over the next 25 years are: $ 35 million in annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms, $ 12 billion a year as a result of heat wave - driven demand for electricity, and tens of billions of dollars from the corn and wheat industry due to a 14 percent drop in crop yields.

Whilst wheat and maize show bigger «missed yield increases» from rising temperatures, soya beans and rice show no effect yet on their yields.

It predicts increases of 30 to 60 percent in the yields of soybeans, cotton, wheat and other crops — ignoring projections to the contrary from plant and agricultural scientists

-- > «The three Iranian researchers report that when the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 were considered, all regions experienced an increase in wheat yield, which «ranged from 5 % to 38 % across all times, scenarios and regions.»

One key to the threefold expansion in the world grain harvest since 1950 was the rapid adoption in some developing countries of high - yielding wheats and rices (originally developed in Japan) and hybrid corn (from the United States).

For example, Monsanto is working on a drought - tolerant corn that would help provide yield stability in Africa, where it's a huge part of the local diet; corn and wheat account for about 40 percent of the world's food and 25 percent of calories consumed in developing countries, and millions of people get more than half of their daily calories from corn and wheat alone, according to the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization.

These are incorporated based upon prior work using (1) the surface ozone response to methane emissions changes from two global composition - climate models, (2) the impact of ozone on yields of four staple crops, wheat, maize, soy and rice, based on the methodology of Van Dingenen et al. (2009), and (3) their valuation using world market prices, as described in Shindell et al. (2012a).

Norman Borlaug won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in genetically modifying wheat to create a high - yielding disease resistant strain; his creation is credited with saving over a billion people in the developing world from starving to death.