The grass that fed the rise of Western Eurasian civilization and still supplies about a fifth of the calories humanity eats. First cultivated in the Fertile Crescent, wheat stores well, mills into flour, and its gluten lets bread rise, three properties that made it the grain of cities, armies and empires. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific NameTriticum aestivum (bread wheat) 3 Domestication RegionFertile Crescent, Southwest Asia 3 Domesticated When (Circa)circa 9600 BC (einkorn and emmer among the Neolithic founder crops) 3 Era
Era (category) Wheat
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Source Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Claviceps purpurea (Wikipedia)
Source Cochliobolus sativus (Wikipedia)
Source Fusarium Head Blight (Wikipedia)
Source Gibberella zeae (Wikipedia)
Source Fusarium Head Blight (Wikipedia)
Source Glomerella graminicola (Wikipedia)
Source Heterodera avenae (Wikipedia)
Source Karnal Bunt (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Puccinia striiformis var. striiformis (Wikipedia)
Source Rice Blast (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Take-all Disease (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Leaf Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
Source Wheat Stripe Rust (Wikipedia)
Source Septoria Leaf Blotch (Wikipedia)
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This milestone records the domestication event of the wheat crop it is directly named for.
Fusarium head blight (scab) is a major fungal disease of wheat that also contaminates grain with mycotoxins.
Unrelenting rain and cold across northern Europe caused near total losses of the wheat, rye, barley and oat harvests.
Even as drought failed Deccan food crops, the colonial government exported a record 6.4 million hundredweight of wheat from India to England during the famine.
Source Green Revolution (Wikipedia)
High-yielding wheat varieties were the first and most consistently cited crop of India's Green Revolution.
Holodomor, Milestones Soviet requisitioning of wheat and other grain from Ukraine is central to accounts of the Holodomor.
CIMMYT, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, is named directly for its wheat mandate.
Karnal bunt, named for Karnal, India, where it was first described, is a quarantine-significant fungal disease of wheat grain.
The khapra beetle is among the most destructive stored-grain pests of wheat worldwide, subject to strict quarantine.
Wartime requisitioning of the Persian wheat crop is named in accounts of the 1917-1919 famine.
Septoria leaf blotch (Zymoseptoria tritici) is one of the most economically important foliar diseases of wheat in Europe.
Take-all disease (Gaeumannomyces tritici) is a major soil-borne root disease of continuously cropped wheat.
Wheat leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) is the most common of the wheat rust diseases worldwide.
Wheat stem rust (Puccinia graminis), including the Ug99 lineage, remains one of the most feared diseases of cultivated wheat.
Wheat streak mosaic virus, transmitted by the wheat curl mite, is a major viral disease of wheat in the Great Plains.
Wheat stripe (yellow) rust is a major, climate-sensitive fungal disease of wheat with a history of sudden epidemic spread.
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1. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database: USDA PLANTS profile data for Triticum aestivum
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS DatabasePlantProfile, DurationsQuote, PlantProfile, Durations
"Durations": [ "Annual" ]
2. Wheat (Wikipedia)
- lead: as cereals, they are cultivated for their grains
- lead: cultivated for grains, which are staple foods around the world
- lead: first cultivated in the regions of the Fertile Crescent around 9600 BC
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The grass that fed the rise of Western Eurasian civilization and still supplies about a fifth of the calories humanity eats.
Wheat Stem Rust (Wikipedia)
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Crop species that are affected by the disease include bread wheat, durum wheat, barley and triticale.
Affected By: Stem rust, Article text
Crop species that are affected by the disease include bread wheat, durum wheat, barley and triticale.
Affected By: Puccinia graminis, Article text
Crop species that are affected by the disease include bread wheat, durum wheat, barley and triticale.
View the Source Wheat Leaf Rust (Wikipedia)
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Wheat leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) is a fungal disease that affects wheat, barley, rye stems, leaves and grains.
Rice Blast (Wikipedia)
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Members of the M. grisea complex can also infect other agriculturally important cereals including wheat, rye, barley, and pearl millet causing diseases called blast disease or blight disease.
Fusarium Head Blight (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Fusarium Head Blight, Article text
Fusarium ear blight (FEB) (also called Fusarium head blight, FHB, or scab), is a fungal disease of cereals, including wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale.
Affected By: Fusarium ear blight, Article text
Fusarium ear blight (FEB) (also called Fusarium head blight, FHB, or scab), is a fungal disease of cereals, including wheat, barley, oats, rye and triticale.
View the Source Ergot (Wikipedia)
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C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley.
Karnal Bunt (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Karnal Bunt, Article textQuote, Affected By: Karnal Bunt, Article text
Karnal bunt (also known as partial bunt) is a fungal disease of wheat, durum wheat, and triticale.
Take-all Disease (Wikipedia)
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All varieties of wheat and barley are susceptible.
Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus, Article textQuote, Affected By: Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus, Article text
It affects the economically important crop species barley, oats, wheat, maize, triticale and rice.
Wheat Stripe Rust (Wikipedia)
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Primary hosts of yellow rust of wheat are Triticum aestivum (bread wheat), Triticum turgidum (durum wheat), triticale, and a few Hordeum vulgare (barley) cultivars.
Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus, Article textQuote, Affected By: Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus, Article text
WSMV infects some of the most agriculturally important members of the family Poaceae, including wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, sorghum, and millet; additionally, some grassy weeds have been known to serve as alternate hosts. == Diagnosis == “Serious infection of winter wheat occurs in early fall, but symptoms usually do not develop until spring.
Claviceps purpurea (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Claviceps purpurea, Article textQuote, Affected By: Claviceps purpurea, Article text
C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat and barley.
Septoria Leaf Blotch (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAffected By: Zymoseptoria tritici, Article textQuote, Affected By: Zymoseptoria tritici, Article text
It is a wheat plant pathogen causing septoria leaf blotch that is difficult to control due to resistance to multiple fungicides.
Cochliobolus sativus (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Cochliobolus sativus, Article textQuote, Affected By: Cochliobolus sativus, Article text
The two most common diseases caused by B. sorokiniana are spot blotch and common root rot, mainly on wheat and barley crops.
Glomerella graminicola (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Glomerella graminicola, Article textQuote, Affected By: Glomerella graminicola, Article text
While the main host of this disease is maize, it can also affect other cereals and grasses, such as sorghum, ryegrass, bluegrass, barley, wheat, and some cultivars of fescue where the production of fruiting bodies cause symptoms to appear in the host plant.
Heterodera avenae (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Heterodera avenae, Article textQuote, Affected By: Heterodera avenae, Article text
Heterodera avenae, the cereal cyst nematode or European cyst nematode, is a plant pathogen and an obligate parasite of cereal crops including barley, oats, wheat and rye.
Puccinia striiformis var. striiformis (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Puccinia striiformis, Article textQuote, Affected By: Puccinia striiformis, Article text
It causes stripe rust on wheat, but has other hosts as well.
Gibberella zeae (Wikipedia)
Affected By: Fusarium graminearum, Lead sectionQuote, Affected By: Fusarium graminearum, Lead section
a devastating disease on wheat and barley
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