ECONOMICS - New discovery should save wheat farmers millions of dollars

The global wheat industry sometimes loses as much as $1 billion a year because prolonged rainfall and high humidity contribute to grains germinating before they are fully mature. The result is both a lower yield of wheat and grains of inferior quality. This phenomenon, known as pre-harvest sprouting or PHS, has such important economic repercussions for farmers around the world that scientists have been working on finding a solution to the problem ...

http://phys.org/news/2013-10-discovery-wheat-farmers-millions-dollars.