News tagged with rust resistance
Stem rust-resistant wheat landraces identified
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have identified a number of stem rust-resistant wheat varieties and are retesting them to verify their resistance.
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Scientists first to characterize barley plant-stem rust spore 'communication'
Traditional thought has held that disease had to penetrate a plant to initiate resistance; however, two Washington State University scientists have established that a barley plant recognizes an invader and begins to marshal ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Ancient wheat plague threatens world crops anew
Diseases that ravage wheat fields are as old as time itself. The ancient Romans even had a legend to explain the terrible plagues.
Jun 10, 2011 |
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International scientists warn of growing threat of wheat rust epidemics worldwide
Researchers meeting at a scientific conference in Aleppo this week reported that aggressive new strains of wheat rust diseases – called stem rust and stripe rust – have decimated up to 40% of farmers' wheat fields ...
Apr 20, 2011 |
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Bright New Dry Bean for Salads and Other Foods
(PhysOrg.com) -- Crimson, a new cranberry dry bean cultivar, is now available for production in the form of foundation seed that could give rise to a new bumper crop of the colorful legume for 2010.
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Understanding apples' ancestors
Wild Malus orientalis -- species of wild apples that could be an ancestor of today's domesticated apples -- are native to the Middle East and Central Asia. A new study comparing the diversity of recently acquir ...
Dec 11, 2009 |
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