{"id":32655,"date":"2016-12-14T15:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/monster-wheat-grown"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:59","slug":"monster-wheat-grown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/monster-wheat-grown","title":{"rendered":"Monster-wheat grown by Oxford could revolutionise farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/monster-wheat-grown.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A crop spray which can boost farmer\u2019s wheat yields by one fifth, without the need for genetic modification, has been developed by scientists at Oxford University.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found a molecule which helps plants make the best use of the sugary fuel that they generate during photosynthesis. And with more fuel, the plants can produce bigger grains.<\/p>\n<p>Other scientists in Britain have developed ways to genetically modify crops to increase yields, and the Department of Environment is currently deciding whether to allow a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/11\/04\/genetically-modified-wheat-could-be-grown-in-britain-from-next-s\/\">field trial for GM wheat in Hertfordshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/12\/14\/monster-wheat-grown-oxford-could-revolutionise-farming\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/12\/14\/monster-wheat-...e-farming\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crop spray which can boost farmer\u2019s wheat yields by one fifth, without the need for genetic modification, has been developed by scientists at Oxford University. Researchers have found a molecule which helps plants make the best use of the sugary fuel that they generate during photosynthesis. And with more fuel, the plants can produce [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65583,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32655\/revisions\/65583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}