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Climate Change May Lead to Greater Severity in Wheat Crop Disease
2014-02-26 22:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Climate change may lead to an increased risk in severity of wheat crop diseases in the next two decades, according to a new study. Scientists from University of Hertfordshire led the research, which was conducted in China to establish whether there is a link between weather and the severity of epidemics of fusarium ear blight on the wheat crops there. When epidemics of fusarium ear blight are big enough, upwards of 60 percent of a wheat crop can be lost to the disease. The blight also produces...
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