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.