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 ...

Famine may be largely a thing of the past but in recent years the re-emergence of a disease that can kill wheat - which provides a fifth of humanity's food - has threatened food security; now a ...

Eighteen participating member countries will have something to smile about. Characterization of the resistance will be by morphology as well as through molecular marker assisted methods. The breeders ...

A new study published in Science by a team of scientists across five continents led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Associate Professor Brande Wulff reports a previously ...

Findings will allow researchers to discover new genes that can improve wheat resistance to diseases Advanced technologies used can be applied to any plant genome Effort has already resulted in ...

Last fall John Holman, professor in agronomy at Kansas State University and the cropping systems and forage agronomist at the Southwest Research and Extension Center in Garden City, didn’t think there ...

Scientists have unraveled how wheat protects itself from a deadly pathogen. Their findings could be harnessed to make important crop species more resistant to disease. Scientists from the Max Planck ...