Another study published in Nature Climate Change last week concluded that higher temperatures will cause wheat production to decline.
Agricultural scientists in the subcontinent note rising temperatures caused wheat yields to drop by 10% in recent years.
Anti-fungal activity of SLS using test cultures of Bipolaris sorokiniana, a plant-pathogenic fungus which causes wheat root rot was studied.
This has for some time caused wheat research to lag behind that of crops with smaller genomes like rice, sorghum, etc. TEs were discovered by Barbara McClintock in 19512, but for about three decades dating from her discovery, TEs were largely thought to be 'Junk DNA', parasite genes in a host genome, or selfish DNA3.
The Romans celebrated the heliacal setting of Sirius around April 25, sacrificing a dog, along with incense, wine, and a sheep, to the goddess Robigo so that the star's emanations would not cause wheat rust on wheat crops that year.
(Pst) causes wheat stripe rust, a devastating disease in many wheat growing areas of the world.
Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst) is a Basidiomycete fungus that causes wheat stripe rust disease.
Fumonisin enhances the ability of F. graminearum to cause wheat head blight, one of the most important wheat diseases in the world [ 53].
The latter fungi cause different wheat straw degradation patterns when cultured under SSF conditions [ 3] and offer the additional advantage of having their genome sequences available.
These countries are important wheat exporters and the loss of production caused the wheat price to spike at $250 per tonne in 1996, $350 per tonne in 2008 and $330 per tonne in 2011, compared with its trend price from 1983 to 2005 of around $150 per tonne (Fig. 3).
