The impact of wheat diversity on the productivity of wheat in China is examined using total factor productivity (TFP …) and an instrumental variable approach. TFP in seven key wheat-producing provinces in China shows significant, though … taxonomies of wheat diversity (named varieties and morphological groups) and three measures of diversity. The analysis shows …

The Punjab of India is an historical source of key wheat genetic resources in national and global plant breeding, and a … focus of concerns about the abandonment of local varieties during the Green Revolution. Much of the wheat area in Punjab was … more genetically similar and less productive than the semi-dwarf wheat varieties that succeeded them. We define, summarize …

with conventional wheat was compared to a market with both conventional and GM wheat varieties to identify price decreases …

corn, soybeans, and cotton have reached high levels in the United States. Wheat is the next major crop confronting the … biotechnology issue, but no commercial varieties of genetically modified (GM) wheat have been released yet. Primary opportunities … for GM developments in wheat center around improvements that meet consumer and end-user needs/issues in addition to …

wheat become more specific about quality, the number of quality segregations that the logistical pipeline must accommodate … increases. The additional cost of increased grain segregations will influence the optimal level of wheat variety segregations … may differ from the wheat categories demanded or the number of storage bins present at the export elevator. …

the subtraction of moisture) would increase reported prices from 42 to 70 c/bu for the wheat classes, while changing to a …

allocation among participants in the wheat marketing system (farmers, grain handlers, and millers). Cost allocations for …

strategies can resolve these challenges. Contracts can be designed to induce legal adoption of GM wheat by varying technology … determine terms to minimize technology agreement violation and to induce legal adoption of GM wheat. A simulation model of a … crop budget for Hard Red Spring wheat was developed. Results illustrate that contracts can be designed to induce desired …