Wheat yields may decline as temperatures increase
A study published in Nature Climate Change shows that for every degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the world loses 6% of its wheat crop. IFT Daily News
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Monsanto wheat farmers reach settlement agreement
Monsanto has entered into a settlement agreement with soft white wheat farmers in the Pacific Northwest who found genetically modified wheat on a farm in Eastern Oregon in May 2013 … Continue Reading →
New insights into bread wheat genome
A draft sequence of the bread wheat genome published in Science by the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium provides new insight into the structure, organization, and evolution of the widely … Continue Reading →
Syngenta acquires Italian durum wheat seed company
Syngenta has acquired Societa Produttori Sementi (PSB), one of Italy’s oldest seed companies and a leader in durum wheat breeding and production for pasta. IFT Daily News
Bunge to purchase Grupo Altex Wheat Mills in Mexico
Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Ltd., has agreed to buy the wheat milling business of Grupo Altex S.A. de C.V. IFT Daily News
Kansas State Univ. to lead first NSF-established research center for wheat
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named Kansas State University as its lead institution for the world’s first Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on wheat. IFT Daily News
Japan suspends U.S. wheat imports due to bioengineered crops
According to Bloomberg, Japan has suspended imports of western-white wheat and feed wheat from the United States after the discovery in an Oregon field of gene-altered crops developed by Monsanto … Continue Reading →
Ferulic acid’s effect on whole wheat bread aroma
A study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry shows that tweaking amounts of ferulic acid in whole wheat bread can alter the flavors and aromas. IFT Daily … Continue Reading →
USDA scientists sequence the wheat genome
A study published in Nature shows that U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) scientists working as part of an international team have completed a shotgun sequencing of the wheat genome. IFT … Continue Reading →