{"id":251910,"date":"2023-07-13T20:49:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=251910"},"modified":"2023-07-13T20:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:19:29","slug":"pau-develops-new-wheat-variety-to-keep-diabetes-obesity-in-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pau-develops-new-wheat-variety-to-keep-diabetes-obesity-in-check\/","title":{"rendered":"PAU develops new wheat variety to keep diabetes, obesity in check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cPAU develops new wheat variety to keep diabetes, obesity in check\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express on 11th July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has developed a new variety of wheat called PBW RS1.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is PBW RS1?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PBW RS1 is a new variety of wheat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Punjab Agricultural University (PAU)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Benefits:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> PBW RS1 has high <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">amylose content and is resistant to starch. This ensures that glucose is released more slowly into the bloodstream. This can help in bringing down the prevalence of diet-related diseases including obesity and diabetes (especially type 2).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 Chapatis and biscuits from its flour taste just like normal wheat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is also resistant to yellow rust and moderately resistant to brown rust fungal diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Drawbacks<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has lower productivity compared to other wheat varieties of Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cPAU develops new wheat variety to keep diabetes, obesity in check\u201d published in Indian Express on 11th July 2023 What is the News? The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has developed a new variety of wheat called PBW RS1. What is PBW RS1? PBW RS1 is a new&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pau-develops-new-wheat-variety-to-keep-diabetes-obesity-in-check\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PAU develops new wheat variety to keep diabetes, obesity in check<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-251910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698470337},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}