A similar study by Michigan Technological University sponsored by UOP found that jet biofuel from camelina could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by as much as 84 percent and be grown in rotation
with wheat crops.
Watch out for: Most oats grown in the United States and Canada are rotated
with wheat crops, making cross contamination a major concern for people with gluten intolerance.
Australian Crop Forecasters founder Ron Storey said any problems
with wheat crops in the northern hemisphere could see prices rise.
Gluten - free oats are such because either the fields are not rotated
with wheat crops and won't accidentally have some wheat volunteers in the oat year or because, as with Cheerios, the oats that might be cross-contaminated have gone through a highly accurate sorting process that weeds out any accidental wheat.
Rolled oats are not strictly 100 % gluten free, and oats are often sticky issue for those with celiac disease because widely available oats are problematic for a few reasons — they contain a small (the tiniest) amount of gluten, and oats as a crop is often cross contaminated
with a wheat crop.
Not exact matches
After reading new research about the issue of «
crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on
wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial
wheat products
with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.
Probably because it will survive a snow storm, rye has been widely used in Eastern Europe where a barley or
wheat crop would be wiped out
with such freezing weather.
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.
In the 1980s,
with Russian troops occupying the country, an effort was made to increase food
crops, rice, and
wheat by means of large community farms.
We maintain our own certified planting seed, and personally contracted
with «Seedsmen» who have not grown any
wheat, rye or barley on their land for the last 2 years and who use their combines for only Gluten Free Oats, LLC or non gluten
crops.
Global
crop yields were beginning to decline — especially for
wheat — raising doubts as to whether production could keep up
with population growth.
Amatul Wadood Nazli, Mansehra, Pakistan Photo: Sebastián Puenzo Breastfeeding is very common in our district of Mansehra, northeast Pakistan, an area
with lush, feminine beauty,
with high green mountains, fields of grass, and
crops of maize,
wheat, rice, and all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
Breastfeeding is very common in our district of Mansehra, northeast Pakistan, an area
with lush, feminine beauty,
with high green mountains, fields of grass, and
crops of maize,
wheat, rice, and all kinds of fruits and vegetables.
The group organised a «mass action» by campaigners to march on the trial site in Harpenden, Herts., on 27th May
with the intention of destroying the GM
wheat crops.
Professor Douglas Baird and his team discovered the presence of carbonised seeds and phytoliths of
wheat chaff at Boncuklu, along
with agricultural weeds commonly found in early farming sites, suggesting the cultivation of
crops did take place.
Crops also suffered,
with corn production down by 30 percent and
wheat by 21 percent, among other foodstuffs.
Along
with wheat, barley, peas, and other important
crops, chickpea — Cicer arietinum — was probably domesticated in Mesopotamia, within the «Fertile Crescent,» about 10,000 years ago.
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.
Mitch Tuinstra, a professor of plant breeding and genetics at Purdue, likened Schulz's work
with corn to what Norman Borlaug did for the development of high - yield
wheat crops in the 1960s and 1970s.
The research will also aid scientists working
with other «cereal
crops,» including rice,
wheat, rye, maize, millet, sorghum, oats and even turfgrass, which like the other food
crops, is in the grass family, Close said.
As for
crops, which can be either C3 like
wheat or C4 like corn, the future is even less clear since farmlands are highly managed and often fertilized
with nitrogen.
«For example,
with the expansion of subtropical drylands as temperate drylands warm cool season
crops such as
wheat and potato would no longer be economically viable,» says Scott Wilson.
Farmers around the world are starting to experiment
with perennial food
crops — both grains, like
wheat and sorghum, and legumes, like peas and beans.
Mexico is in the middle - ground due to the continued popularity in local diets of
crops like maize and beans, two plants native to the region, alongside sugarcane (
with origins in Southeast and South Asia) and
wheat.
While
wheat and barley
crop yields have risen largely through varietal change and have now plateaued, the sugar beet yield has shot up
with the warmer winters.
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.
Annual
crops contribute heavily to the world food system,
with three domesticated grains —
wheat, maize, and rice — providing 60 percent of the calories humans consume.
AltAir does better by sourcing its bio — jet fuel from oil seed — bearing plants, like camelina, but that limits the amount that can be planted in rotation
with food
crops like
wheat given constraints on the amount of land available for the latter.
Furthermore, other factors will come into play, such as the local availability of water, competition
with other
crops such as
wheat or corn, and the sheer cost of planting and maintaining new vineyards and production facilities.
In a unique study set - up, the scientists first compared simulation results from a large ensemble of
wheat crop growth models
with experimental data, including artificial heating experiments and multi-locational field trials.
Researchers will initially use it to test GM
wheat with resistance to powdery mildew, a fungal disease, but they could ultimately plant other
crops such as potatoes.
It also can be rotated
with wheat and could become a biofuel
crop for semi-arid regions, including western Kansas and Colorado.
There is speculation that the poison got into the chow because Chinese farmers sprayed their
crops, including
wheat,
with it to protect them from hungry rodents.
Many of the same scientists who helped
with this study have worked
with Asseng on computer models to simulate
crop growth and yield, particularly for
wheat.
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.
If the tide turns, promising
crops, such as a gluten - free
wheat or GM green beans
with added iron to fight anemia, might make their mark alongside the yield - improving GM
crops.
The scientists also found no evidence of genetic bottlenecks — a severe narrowing of genetic diversity — in domesticated apples, a pattern that contrasts
with the earliest domesticated
crops like barley, millet, and
wheat.
The principle
crops in the region uncovered include cereals such as corn, rice, and spring
wheat in a region known to be the main grain area of China (26)[Fig. 1,
with brown dots in denoting at least 50 % total coverage by
crops according to the land cover type yearly climate modeling grid (CMG) datasets
with 0.05 ° resolution from the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).].
This will help allow
wheat breeding to keep up
with the rising global demand for the
crop and to address the challenges of new, virulent diseases and more extreme weather.
Chemical controls are costly and potentially harmful to human and environmental health, so protecting
crops like
wheat with inherent resistance is the smart alternative, but resistance must be genetically complex, combining several genes, to withstand new mutations of the pathogen over time.
Climate change impact analyses typically project increasing pest survival and
crop damage
with increasing temperatures (e.g., NCA 2014a), and
wheat stem sawfly (WSS) may well be generally consistent
with that pattern, but the following caveats help to show why generalizations across all landscapes in Montana, for all insect pests, are risky.
This finding has encouraged incorporation of pulse
crops into rotations
with wheat (Long et al. 2014), replacing summer fallow years.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have tested all the university's
wheat varieties, as well as others around the Northwest, and found none
with the genetically modified herbicide resistance discovered in an Oregon
crop this spring.
Finally, countries like India recognize the importance of using biotechnology to make the country self - sufficient in food grains, including rice,
wheat and oil seed production
with the first biotech food
crop, biotech eggplant, expecting approval in the near - term.
The discovery clears the way for breeders to develop
wheat varieties
with the disease - and pest - resistance traits of other grasses, using a legion of genetic tools that can reduce
crop losses and pesticide use while foregoing the cost, regulatory hurdles and controversy of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Researchers have been implementing the new products in collaboration
with three partner public
crop - breeding centers: the International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India (working
with sorghum and chickpea); the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines (rice); and the International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico (maize and wh
Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in Mexico (maize and
wheatwheat).
is a fast - growing weed
with a tiny genome that is much easier to study than the massive genomes of key
crops like
wheat and corn.
The mustard cress Arabidopsis thaliana is a fast - growing weed
with a tiny genome that is much easier to study than the massive genomes of key
crops like
wheat and corn.
Translation of fundamental plant biology research (e.g. from Arabidopsis thaliana) into
crops such as
wheat provides a potential route to deal
with this challenge.
Studies have shown that deamidated
wheat proteins are correlated
with a negative immune response, but
wheat is not the only
crop to undergo deamidation.