Ongoing Fusarium Head Blight research is being done to help wheat and barley growers.
Todd Ward, director of the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Illinois tells Brownfield researcher Martha Vaughan discovered wheat grown under higher levels of carbon dioxide tends to grow quicker, dropping the protein content and overall quality. He says she then found that moderately resistant wheat lines have a greater response to higher CO2 levels which have been climbing in recent years.
