But it will be banned by all forward-looking nations

let them eat cicadas

Scientists-close to producing super-wheat-resistant to deadly rust variants

United States scientists say they are close to producing super varieties of wheat that will resist from variants of Ug99, a new and deadly form of wheat rust and at the same time boost yields by as much as 15%.

Scientists released in Minnesota a report with new data that showed key Ug99 variants have now been identified across all of eastern and southern Africa and that it may only be a matter of time before the spores travel to India or Pakistan, and even Australia and the Americas.

Ronnie Coffman, head of the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat project at Cornell University, and his colleagues note that significant obstacles will have to be overcome before the new varieties of wheat can replace susceptible varieties that cover most of an estimated 225 million hectares of wheat fields throughout the breadbaskets of South Asia, the Middle East, China, Europe, Australia and North America.

The Boarlaug Global Rust Initiative was created after confirming that a new stem rust strain called Ug99 could overcome a crucial resistance gene, Sr31 that had been widely used in the world’s wheat breeding programs to protect the world’s wheat crop from the disease.

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The plan to protect the world from Ug99 is focused not on creating a single variety of Ug99 resistant wheat, but on conferring genetic resistance in wheat and transferring these traits to local varieties.

The Ug99 is a new variant of the black rust that attacks wheat’s stem impeding the plant to feed and in the fifties and sixties in some years finished with 40% of crops in the United States and Canada.

Another disease, yellow rust, appears to be adapting to warmer conditions and moving into areas where the disease has not previously caused economic losses. Scientists see the growing demand for yellow rust-resistant wheat as an opportunity to disseminate new high-yield varieties resistant to multiple pathogens, including yellow rust and stem rust.

 “Golden Rice” — genetically modified rice that provides Vitamin A to populations of the poor that suffer from its deficiency, was bitterly opposed by Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists, and many countries, including China and the Philippines. It was finally approved by the Philippines in 2019, after a 19-year battle, but remains banned in China and Europe.

Salt-tolerant wheat and tomatoes, drought-resistant crops: all have all been fought and even banned through the world, by the same people who believe in the global warming and rising sea levels that they claim threaten conventional crops. Of course, it is also this crowd that wants the world’s population to be drastically reduced, especially the ranks of poor African-Americans (52% of all black pregnancies are aborted, so that must be satisfying). If they can starve millions more poor people, regardless of race, so much the better.