The large area of wheat varieties carrying the Yr15 resistance gene created the selection pressure that resulted in last year ...

Journal of Plant Pathology, Vol. 103, No. 1 (February 2021), pp. 197-205 (9 pages) Under appropriate environmental conditions, stem rust (caused by Puccinia graminis Pers.: Pers. f. sp. tritici) is a ...

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The world's top wheat experts have reported a breakthrough in their ability to track Ug99 and related strains of a deadly and rapidly mutating wheat pathogen called stem rust that threatens wheat ...

An international team of researchers, led by a University of California, Davis, plant scientist, has identified a gene that should protect commercially important wheat varieties from stripe rust, a ...

Recent and abundant rains in some areas have producers concerned about leaf rust that is appearing in High Plains wheat fields. But a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist said treatment is ...

Stripe rust, a crop disease seldom found in Minnesota and North Dakota, has popped in wheat fields in northwestern Minnesota and elsewhere. But warm weather in late June and early July should prevent ...

As the world’s population continues to grow, so does its appetite for cereal grains, which include such dietary staples as wheat. This growing demand has driven agricultural scientists to develop ...

A scientist at the NARC has developed a simple method to prevent yellow rust in varieties of wheat. Sarala Sharma, a senior scientist at the Plant Pathology Division of the National Agricultural ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney, CSIRO, the United Kingdom’s John Innes Centre, Limagrain UK and the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) have isolated the first major resistance ...

The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes. Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have pinpointed two genes that protect wheat against devastating fungal diseases found worldwide, potentially paving the way to hardier wheat strains, international ...