Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
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Re: Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
#2Wheat fungus, not yeast fungus.
Re: Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
#3Wheat fungus, not yeast fungus.
Wheat Blast specifically.
I always worry about our monocultures because of things like (from the article): 15k hectares destroyed to try and contain the outbreak, and some sources claim that "Yield loss to this disease can be greater than 75% in severely affected fields."[0] which seems to me that if this spreads across Asia this could be a big problem.
Re: Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
#4It has begun.
Re: Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
#5It has begun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass
Dammit I was just trying to think of a good way to reference that same book.
It's unreal how much our seemingly unassailable modern society, with all its technology, relies on this one kind of plant.
Re: Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
#6Wheat fungus, not yeast fungus.
I was worried for my beer for a moment
Re: Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
#7It has begun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass
Interesting premise. I wonder if civilization would collapse, or if we'd be able to adapt our agriculture to more legumes and other vegetables quickly enough to avoid mass starvation.
Re: Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
#8It has begun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass
Interesting premise. I wonder if civilization would collapse, or if we'd be able to adapt our agriculture to more legumes and other vegetables quickly enough to avoid mass starvation.
The US plants more soy than wheat already so the adapting part would probably go OK. The bigger question would be the math about calories (it probably works out, meat production consumes a lot of calories).
I guess we could also plant lots of potatoes (which produce more calories/acre than soy).
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#9LSD for the masses? :-)
Re: Devastating wheat fungus appears in Asia for first time
#10It has begun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Grass
Reminds me a bit too much of Interstellar's Blight. http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/The_Blight