{"id":6173,"date":"2024-01-13T08:44:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=6173"},"modified":"2024-01-11T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:50:02","slug":"chilean-scientists-warn-of-climate-change-effects-on-wheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/chilean-scientists-warn-of-climate-change-effects-on-wheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilean Scientists Warn of Climate Change Effects on Wheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-450f08e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con\" data-id=\"450f08e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;content_width&quot;:&quot;boxed&quot;}\">\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d7854a elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-excerpt\" data-id=\"5d7854a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"theme-post-excerpt.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Trigales-en-chile-1-768x512-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Trigales-en-chile-1-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Trigales-en-chile-1-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>A research by Chilean scientists published warns of the negative effects of global warming on the yield of wheat crops, a cereal of which this country is one of the largest consumers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36d6027 elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info\" data-id=\"36d6027\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>Climate change, associated with phenomena such as El Ni\u00f1o, are pushing temperatures to record levels and heat waves have increased from nine to 62 in the last 10 seasons, and 2024 will be no exception, the research states. According to Dr. Anita Arenas, from the Millennium Institute of Integrative Biology and the Talca University, responsible for the research, these episodes affect both the weight and quality of wheat grain, which is key to world food security.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main results, he said, was that in response to the high temperatures, the so-called durum wheat suffered a weight loss of -23.9 percent, the starch content decreased and the protein level increased.<\/p>\n<p>Arenas indicated that on this last point, further analysis will be necessary to determine whether the increase in protein is accompanied by a change in gluten composition.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Liubis Balart<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research by Chilean scientists published warns of the negative effects of global warming on the yield of wheat crops, a cereal of which this country is one of the largest consumers. Climate change, associated with phenomena such as El Ni\u00f1o, are pushing temperatures to record levels and heat waves have increased from nine to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guantanamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}