{"id":3775,"date":"2015-01-18T20:03:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T01:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3775"},"modified":"2015-01-18T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T21:55:45","slug":"defending-durum-wheat-against-fusarium-head-blight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/defending-durum-wheat-against-fusarium-head-blight\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending durum wheat against Fusarium Head Blight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3776\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3843830870_16ee9abdca_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3776\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3776\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3843830870_16ee9abdca_z-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Durum wheat is grown in three Canadian provinces and is exported to more than 40 countries around the world. Canada\u2019s domestic pasta industry uses more than 300 000 tonnes of durum a year. (Information from the Canadian Wheat Board and Pasta Canada. (Photo credit:  Aske Holst, flickr.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3843830870_16ee9abdca_z-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3843830870_16ee9abdca_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Durum wheat is grown in three Canadian provinces and is exported to more than 40 countries around the world. Canada\u2019s domestic pasta industry uses more than 300 000 tonnes of durum a year. (Information from the Canadian Wheat Board and Pasta Canada. (Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/askeholst\/3843830870\">Aske Holst, flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Researchers may have found the key to protecting durum wheat from Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), which leaves it unsuitable for human consumption or livestock feed. Common wheat has been bred to develop a resistance to this fungal disease, however durum wheat, which is used to create pastas, has no defence against it.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers analyzed two strains of wheat, a highly resistant common wheat and a highly susceptible durum wheat. They found that there were significant differences between the two plants in the composition and structure of the cell wall, which allows the resistant wheat to hold off an FHB infection.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery opens the door to breeding new FHB-resistant strains of durum wheat through. cross-breeding or genetic modifications.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in <em>BioMed Plant Biology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>January\u00a018<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Vincenzo Lionetti, Sapienza\u00a0Universit\u00e0 di Roma, Italy<\/h4>\n<h4>Angelica Giancaspro,\u00a0University of Bari\u00a0\u201cAldo Moro\u201d, Italy<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers may have found the key to protecting durum wheat from Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), which leaves it unsuitable for human consumption or livestock feed. Common wheat has been bred to develop a resistance to this fungal disease, however durum wheat, which is used to create pastas, has no defence against it. Researchers analyzed two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[101,170],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-agriculture","tag-biodiversity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3843830870_16ee9abdca_z.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-YT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}