As the world\u2019s human population continues to balloon and land available for agriculture continues to shrink, we\u2019ll need to find new ways to produce cereals like wheat and barley in more sustainable ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWheat and barley are staple food crops around the world but their production needs to increase dramatically to meet future food demands,\u201d explains<\/a> Ken Chalmers, an associate professor at the University of Adelaide\u2019s School of Agriculture, Food & Wine. \u201cIt is estimated that wheat production alone must increase by more than 50% over current levels by 2050 to feed the growing global population.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chalmers and his colleagues have an answer to how we can help meet those growing demands: unlocking the entire gene set of these plants to give breeders the necessary tools to boost their crop yields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAdvances in genomics have accelerated breeding and the improvement of yield and quality in crops including rice and maize, but similar efforts in wheat and barley have been more challenging,\u201d says Prof. Peter Langridge, who also worked on the research whose findings have been published in a paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is largely due to the size and complexity of their genomes, our limited knowledge of the key genes controlling yield, and the lack of genome assembly data for multiple lines of interest to breeders,\u201d he adds. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the world\u2019s human population continues to balloon and land available for agriculture continues to shrink, we\u2019ll need to find new ways to produce cereals like wheat and barley in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}