China is enhancing its efforts to battle plant diseases spreading in the country's wheat and rape plantations.

A US federal judge has thrown out a class action brought against the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) by US wheat growers.

Disease resistance genes from three different grass species have been combined in the world’s first ‘trigenomic’ chromosome, which can now be used to breed disease resistant wheat varieties.

In a finding that could help put wheat alongside corn on the menu of biofuel sources, researchers in the United Kingdom and Greece report development of a new method for producing ethanol from wheat.

China will maintain a minimum purchase price for wheat, safeguarding 25-30 percent profit margins for farmers, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner.