{"id":9154,"date":"2023-04-19T05:52:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2025-03-29T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:05:18","slug":"wheat-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wheat-blast\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheat Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About <\/strong><strong>Wheat Blast:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What it is?<\/strong> It is a <strong>fungal disease<\/strong> in <strong>tropical and subtropical wheat production regions<\/strong> caused by <strong>Magnaporthe oryzae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The fungus infects wild and cultivated grasses, most notably rice and wheat.<\/li>\n<li>It spreads <strong>through infected seeds<\/strong>, and <strong>crop residues<\/strong> as well as by spores that can travel long distances in the air.<\/li>\n<li>The crop fungi are known <strong>to mutate<\/strong> and adapt to new conditions<\/li>\n<li><strong>History of the outbreak of this disease<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers first detected this pathogen in <strong>Brazilian wheat crops<\/strong> in the 1980s.<\/li>\n<li>Asia\u2019s first outbreak of this pathogenic wheat blast was reported in <strong>Bangladesh in 2016.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Two years later, an outbreak of this fungus was detected in wheat crops in <strong>Zambia<\/strong>, which was the first time the pathogen was detected in <strong>Africa<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Facts about Wheat<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the second most important <strong>cereal crop<\/strong> in India after rice.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>Rabi crop<\/strong> which requires a <strong>cool growing season<\/strong> and <strong>bright sunshine<\/strong> at the time of ripening.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Temperature:<\/strong> It requires 10-15\u00b0C (at the time of Sowing) and 21-26\u00b0C during Ripening &amp; Harvesting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rainfall:<\/strong> Around 75-100 cm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soil required:<\/strong> Well-drained <strong>fertile loamy and clayey loamy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Rabi crop?<\/h3>\n<p>Rabi crop is a type of agricultural crop that is sown in the winter season in India, usually between October and December, and harvested in the spring, typically between March and June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/agriculture\/wheat-blast-a-fungus-that-spread-to-three-continents-can-threaten-food-security-globally-88803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Wheat blast: A fungus that spread to three continents can threaten food security globally<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wheat Blast  is a fungal disease in tropical and subtropical regions caused by Magnaporthe oryzae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}