{"id":77469,"date":"2021-01-18T19:49:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=77469"},"modified":"2021-03-01T14:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T08:58:41","slug":"inspire-faculty-produced-heat-tolerant-wheat-varieties-resulting-in-improved-grain-yield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inspire-faculty-produced-heat-tolerant-wheat-varieties-resulting-in-improved-grain-yield\/","title":{"rendered":"INSPIRE Faculty produced heat-tolerant wheat varieties resulting in improved grain yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Researchers of the INSPIRE Faculty under the Department of Science and Technology(DST) are studying to develop a variety of wheat that does not lose its productivity under heat stress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wheat and Heat Stress: <\/strong>Wheat is affected severely by Heat stress as it causes a dramatic reduction in yield as well as quality of wheat which is the staple for more than one-third of the world\u2019s population.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are the researchers studying and developing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>The researchers are studying the role of DNA methylation (a biological process by which methyl groups are added to the DNA molecule) patterns as it plays a significant role in plant development as well as in heat stress tolerance during different grain filling stages.This study is carried out through a process called epigenomic mapping.<\/li>\n<li>It will explore the epigenetic route to modify gene expression in a manner that is stably transmitted but does not involve differences in the underlying DNA sequence so that the heritable genes do not buckle under heat stress and non-stress conditions during different grain filling stages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1689291\">Article source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Researchers of the INSPIRE Faculty under the Department of Science and Technology(DST) are studying to develop a variety of wheat that does not lose its productivity under heat stress. Facts: Wheat and Heat Stress: Wheat is affected severely by Heat stress as it causes a dramatic reduction in yield as well as quality of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/inspire-faculty-produced-heat-tolerant-wheat-varieties-resulting-in-improved-grain-yield\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INSPIRE Faculty produced heat-tolerant wheat varieties resulting in improved grain yield<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":77470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,1738,9],"tags":[1427,1424],"class_list":["post-77469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-agri_4","tag-st_6","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/INSPIRE-Faculty-produced-heat-tolerant-wheat-varieties-resulting-in-improved-grain-yield.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700776900,"cached_date":1704944313},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}